Guns N’ Roses · Appetite for Destruction
Paradise City
Paradise City is in B major at 100.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
100 BPM · Andantemedian of 434 analyses · 100–100.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 85%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 434people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 599.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.28dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.905Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.36Essentia'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
434 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 85% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 434 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 100.1 BPM one beat lasts 599.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 149.9 ms and a dotted eighth 449.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 200.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.28 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 0.905 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 B 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 B major
Each of these differs from B 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 100 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2397.6 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1198.8 | 0.83 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 899.1 | 1.11 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 599.4 | 1.67 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 399.6 | 2.5 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 449.6 | 2.22 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 299.7 | 3.34 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 199.8 | 5.01 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 224.8 | 4.45 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 149.9 | 6.67 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 99.9 | 10.01 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74.9 | 13.35 |
Half time 50.1 BPM · double time 200.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (599.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- I Don’t Want to Live Without YouForeignerB major100BPM
- Josieblink‐182B major100BPM
- ChocolateThe 1975B major100BPM
- Hoodoo / Voodoo Medicine ManAerosmithB major101BPM
- A Taste of HoneyThe BeatlesB major101BPM
- Faaip de OiadToolB major101BPM
- Hey BulldogThe BeatlesB major102BPM
- Give Me One ReasonTracy ChapmanB major102BPM
- The Sad CaféEaglesB major102BPM
- When I Come AroundGreen DayB major98BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 100 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 100 BPMB major at 100–109 BPMGuns N’ Roses
MusicBrainz collapses 159 recording ids into this one. Recording id b8bcd44d-b698-465f-a3ed-c38ca81418d6.