TempoPeek

Linda Ronstadt · Heart Like a Wheel

It Doesn’t Matter Anymore

It Doesn’t Matter Anymore is in C major at 152.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

153 BPM · Allegromedian of 163 analyses · 151.4–153.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
92%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
163people who ran the extractor
One beat
393.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.38dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.642Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.01Essentia'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

163 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 92% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 163 readings; 92% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 151.4 to 153.4 BPM.

At 152.6 BPM one beat lasts 393.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.3 ms and a dotted eighth 294.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 305.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 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 4.38 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 0.642 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 153 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41572.70.64
Half note2786.41.27
Dotted quarter1.5589.81.7
Quarter note (one beat)1393.22.54
Quarter triplet0.667262.13.81
Dotted eighth0.75294.93.39
Eighth note0.5196.65.09
Eighth triplet0.333131.17.63
Dotted sixteenth0.375147.46.78
Sixteenth note0.2598.310.17
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.515.26
Thirty-second note0.12549.120.35

Half time 76.3 BPM · double time 305.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (393.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Let Love RuleLenny KravitzC major153BPM
  2. They’re Red HotRed Hot Chili PeppersC major153BPM
  3. Where Is the LoveCéline DionC major153BPM
  4. Fire and RainJames TaylorC major152BPM
  5. Cry Baby CryThe BeatlesC major153BPM
  6. BirdsNeil YoungC major152BPM
  7. Five YearsDavid BowieC major153BPM
  8. Only the Good Die YoungBilly JoelC major152BPM
  9. StagesZZ TopC major152BPM
  10. ImagineJohn LennonC major152BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 153 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 153 BPMC major at 150–159 BPMLinda Ronstadt

MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id 93f88f9a-eacc-49ee-a5ac-f8189cbdd0a8.