Elvis Costello & The Attractions · Get Happy!!
High Fidelity
High Fidelity is in A minor at 143.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
144 BPM · Allegromedian of 141 analyses · 143.9–143.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 79%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 141people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 417milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.99dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.967Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.301Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
141 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 141 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 143.9 BPM one beat lasts 417 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.2 ms and a dotted eighth 312.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72 BPM, counted twice as fast 287.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.99 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.967 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in A minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with A minor
Each of these differs from A minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 144 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1667.8 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 833.9 | 1.2 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 625.4 | 1.6 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 417 | 2.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 278 | 3.6 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 312.7 | 3.2 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 208.5 | 4.8 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 139 | 7.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 156.4 | 6.4 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 104.2 | 9.59 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.5 | 14.39 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.1 | 19.19 |
Half time 72 BPM · double time 287.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (417 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Put Your Lights OnSantana featuring EverlastA minor144BPM
- Susie QDale HawkinsA minor144BPM
- Suffragette CityDavid BowieA minor144BPM
- Paper TigerBeckA minor144BPM
- Dachau BluesCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandA minor143BPM
- Trouble No MoreThe Allman Brothers BandA minor143BPM
- Turn Your Lights Down LowBob Marley & The WailersA minor143BPM
- Morning BellRadioheadA minor142BPM
- [White Blur 1]Aphex TwinA minor142BPM
- Can’t Hold UsMacklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray DaltonA minor146BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 144 BPMA minor at 140–149 BPMElvis Costello & The Attractions
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 63baacb5-f789-434e-a4ad-e970a122d393.