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Love, Oh Love
Love, Oh Love is in G major at 147.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
148 BPM · Allegromedian of 130 analyses · 147.8–148 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 130people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 406milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.3Hz · +9 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.1dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.434Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.917Essentia'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
130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 147.8 BPM one beat lasts 406 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.5 ms and a dotted eighth 304.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 295.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.3 Hz, which is 9 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 6.1 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 0.434 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 148 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1623.8 | 0.62 |
| Half note | 2 | 811.9 | 1.23 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 608.9 | 1.64 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 406 | 2.46 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 270.6 | 3.7 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 304.5 | 3.28 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 203 | 4.93 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 135.3 | 7.39 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 152.2 | 6.57 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 101.5 | 9.85 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 67.7 | 14.78 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 50.7 | 19.71 |
Half time 73.9 BPM · double time 295.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (406 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Do You Have a Little TimeDidoG major148BPM
- Love Me DoThe BeatlesG major148BPM
- Only Women BleedAlice CooperG major148BPM
- Hold OnJetG major148BPM
- These Are the DaysJamie CullumG major148BPM
- Holidays in the SunSex PistolsG major148BPM
- Wild HorsesThe Rolling StonesG major147BPM
- ProofPaul SimonG major147BPM
- Helplessly HopingCrosby, Stills & NashG major147BPM
- I Fought the LawThe Bobby Fuller FourG major149BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 148 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 148 BPMG major at 140–149 BPMLionel Richie
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 871cde5e-8b9c-4950-898e-33b7bf1bc424.