TempoPeek

Enrique Iglesias · Escape

Hero

Hero is in G major at 151.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

152 BPM · Allegromedian of 233 analyses · 151.9–152 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
233people who ran the extractor
One beat
395milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.77dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.532Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.972Essentia'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

233 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 233 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 151.9 BPM one beat lasts 395 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.7 ms and a dotted eighth 296.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76 BPM, counted twice as fast 303.8. 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 5.77 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 0.532 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 G major; 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 G major

Each of these differs from G major 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 152 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note415800.63
Half note27901.27
Dotted quarter1.5592.51.69
Quarter note (one beat)13952.53
Quarter triplet0.667263.33.8
Dotted eighth0.75296.23.38
Eighth note0.5197.55.06
Eighth triplet0.333131.77.6
Dotted sixteenth0.375148.16.75
Sixteenth note0.2598.710.13
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.815.19
Thirty-second note0.12549.420.25

Half time 76 BPM · double time 303.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (395 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. HeroMariah CareyE major120BPM

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

  1. Brown Eyed GirlVan MorrisonG major152BPM
  2. Run‐AroundBlues TravelerG major152BPM
  3. The KKK Took My Baby AwayRamonesG major152BPM
  4. February StarsFoo FightersG major152BPM
  5. Trouble IsBackstreet BoysG major152BPM
  6. Sonnets/Unrealities XIBjörkG major152BPM
  7. Any Colour You LikePink FloydG major152BPM
  8. Can’t You Hear Me KnockingThe Rolling StonesG major152BPM
  9. Almost GrownChuck BerryG major152BPM
  10. She Loves YouThe BeatlesG major152BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 152 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 152 BPMG major at 150–159 BPMEnrique Iglesias

MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id f910bd67-98c0-4a99-aaf1-19557f53921c.