Lana Del Rey ft. Sean Ono Lennon · Lust for Life
Tomorrow Never Came
Tomorrow Never Came is in C major at 145.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
146 BPM · Allegromedian of 136 analyses · 145.9–145.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 136people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 411.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.9dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.829Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.061Essentia'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
136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 145.9 BPM one beat lasts 411.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.8 ms and a dotted eighth 308.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73 BPM, counted twice as fast 291.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 cents above 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 4.9 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 0.829 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 146 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1645 | 0.61 |
| Half note | 2 | 822.5 | 1.22 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 616.9 | 1.62 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 411.2 | 2.43 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 274.2 | 3.65 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 308.4 | 3.24 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 205.6 | 4.86 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 137.1 | 7.3 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 154.2 | 6.48 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 102.8 | 9.73 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 68.5 | 14.59 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51.4 | 19.45 |
Half time 73 BPM · double time 291.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (411.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- L’esprit d’escalierJetC major145BPM
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- UnderdogAudio AdrenalineC major145BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 146 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 146 BPMC major at 140–149 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 28361669-119b-4600-b055-911121c7609b.