Linkin Park · Hybrid Theory

Runaway

Runaway is in G major at 109.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

109 BPM · Moderatomedian of 226 analyses · 109.1–109.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
79%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
226people who ran the extractor
One beat
550milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.14dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.911Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.045Essentia'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

226 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 226 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 109.1 BPM one beat lasts 550 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 137.5 ms and a dotted eighth 412.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 218.2. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 3.14 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 0.911 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 109 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42199.80.45
Half note21099.90.91
Dotted quarter1.5824.91.21
Quarter note (one beat)15501.82
Quarter triplet0.667366.62.73
Dotted eighth0.75412.52.42
Eighth note0.52753.64
Eighth triplet0.333183.35.45
Dotted sixteenth0.375206.24.85
Sixteenth note0.25137.57.27
Sixteenth triplet0.16791.710.91
Thirty-second note0.12568.714.55

Half time 54.6 BPM · double time 218.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (550 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. RunawayBon JoviA minor152BPM
  2. RunawayThe CorrsF major101BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. ChristmasThe WhoG major109BPM
  2. The Last Time I Saw RichardJoni MitchellG major109BPM
  3. More Than a FeelingBostonG major109BPM
  4. The Reason a DogAerosmithG major109BPM
  5. Two of UsThe BeatlesG major110BPM
  6. Turtle BluesBig Brother & the Holding CompanyG major110BPM
  7. SatellitesBeyoncéG major108BPM
  8. Get on the Good FootJames BrownG major108BPM
  9. My FaultImagine DragonsG major108BPM
  10. How Many More YearsHowlin’ WolfG major110BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 109 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 109 BPMG major at 100–109 BPMLinkin Park

MusicBrainz collapses 28 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6afbebc6-6321-4b8d-9e6f-c1b264777f24.