Imagine Dragons · Night Visions
Radioactive
Radioactive is in A major at 136.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 402 analyses · 136.1–139.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 89%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 402people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 440.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.01dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.889Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.984Essentia'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
402 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 402 readings; 89% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 136.1 to 139.6 BPM.
At 136.2 BPM one beat lasts 440.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.1 ms and a dotted eighth 330.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 272.4. 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 4.01 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 0.889 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 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1762.1 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 881.1 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 660.8 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 440.5 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 293.7 | 3.41 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 330.4 | 3.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 220.3 | 4.54 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.8 | 6.81 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.2 | 6.05 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.1 | 9.08 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.4 | 13.62 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.1 | 18.16 |
Half time 68.1 BPM · double time 272.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (440.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Smack My Bitch UpProdigyA major136BPM
- It’s So EasyThe Crickets feat. Buddy HollyA major136BPM
- (I Can’t Get No) SatisfactionThe Rolling StonesA major136BPM
- Never Say GoodbyeBon JoviA major136BPM
- I’m Not DownThe ClashA major136BPM
- SatisfactionThe Rolling StonesA major137BPM
- AtomicBlondieA major137BPM
- Simple LessonsCandleboxA major137BPM
- Out on the WeekendNeil YoungA major137BPM
- Everything’s Not Lost / Life Is for LivingColdplayA major136BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 136 BPMA major at 130–139 BPMImagine Dragons
MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id bd61eda3-eb77-4634-ba66-4a084f7f8455.