Lionel Richie · Can’t Slow Down

Hello

Hello is in A minor at 123.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

124 BPM · Allegromedian of 383 analyses · 123.8–124 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
383people who ran the extractor
One beat
484.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.2dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.311Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.995Essentia'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

383 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 383 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 123.9 BPM one beat lasts 484.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121.1 ms and a dotted eighth 363.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62 BPM, counted twice as fast 247.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 cents above 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 7.2 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 0.311 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 minor; 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 minor

Each of these differs from A minor 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 124 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note419370.52
Half note2968.51.03
Dotted quarter1.5726.41.38
Quarter note (one beat)1484.32.07
Quarter triplet0.667322.83.1
Dotted eighth0.75363.22.75
Eighth note0.5242.14.13
Eighth triplet0.333161.46.2
Dotted sixteenth0.375181.65.51
Sixteenth note0.25121.18.26
Sixteenth triplet0.16780.712.39
Thirty-second note0.12560.516.52

Half time 62 BPM · double time 247.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (484.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. HelloAdeleA♭ major156BPM
  2. HelloEvanescenceF♯ minor140BPM
  3. HelloOasisA minor132BPM

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. Other SideRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor124BPM
  2. One KissCalvin Harris & Dua LipaA minor124BPM
  3. Behind Blue EyesThe WhoA minor124BPM
  4. CrescendollsDaft PunkA minor124BPM
  5. Knock Me DownRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor124BPM
  6. After AllDavid BowieA minor124BPM
  7. EasilyRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor124BPM
  8. Rhythm Is a Dancer (original 12″)Snap!A minor124BPM
  9. FleshAerosmithA minor124BPM
  10. Magic TouchAerosmithA minor124BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 124 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMLionel Richie

MusicBrainz collapses 33 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6aa575e3-6772-4e5b-a09a-d274d14fb415.