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Fleetwood Mac · Rumours

The Chain

The Chain is in A minor at 152.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

152 BPM · Allegromedian of 294 analyses · 152.1–152.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
72%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
294people who ran the extractor
One beat
394.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.63dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.274Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.146Essentia'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

294 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 72% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 294 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 152.2 BPM one beat lasts 394.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.6 ms and a dotted eighth 295.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 304.4. 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 7.63 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 0.274 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 152 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41576.90.63
Half note2788.41.27
Dotted quarter1.5591.31.69
Quarter note (one beat)1394.22.54
Quarter triplet0.667262.83.81
Dotted eighth0.75295.73.38
Eighth note0.5197.15.07
Eighth triplet0.333131.47.61
Dotted sixteenth0.375147.86.76
Sixteenth note0.2598.610.15
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.715.22
Thirty-second note0.12549.320.29

Half time 76.1 BPM · double time 304.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (394.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. RoadsPortisheadA minor152BPM
  2. RunawayBon JoviA minor152BPM
  3. Black HoneyThriceA minor152BPM
  4. PanicBackstreet BoysA minor152BPM
  5. I Feel You3 Doors DownA minor152BPM
  6. Ten Years GoneLed ZeppelinA minor153BPM
  7. New ProgramCurren$y feat. Young RoddyA minor151BPM
  8. Ticks & LeechesToolA minor153BPM
  9. Pump ItThe Black Eyed PeasA minor153BPM
  10. BlackPearl JamA minor154BPM

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

All songs in A minorAll songs at 152 BPMA minor at 150–159 BPMFleetwood Mac

MusicBrainz collapses 50 recording ids into this one. Recording id cd06c484-9319-4376-a104-504871e19756.