TempoPeek

Marilyn Manson · The Golden Age of Grotesque

Tainted Love

Tainted Love is in C minor at 142 beats per minute.

4080120160200

Tempo

142 BPM · Allegromedian of 158 analyses · 142–142.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
88%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
158people who ran the extractor
One beat
422.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.82dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.926Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.111Essentia'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

158 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 88% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 158 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 142 BPM one beat lasts 422.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.6 ms and a dotted eighth 316.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71 BPM, counted twice as fast 284. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.82 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 0.926 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 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 C minor

Each of these differs from C 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 142 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41690.10.59
Half note2845.11.18
Dotted quarter1.5633.81.58
Quarter note (one beat)1422.52.37
Quarter triplet0.667281.73.55
Dotted eighth0.75316.93.16
Eighth note0.5211.34.73
Eighth triplet0.333140.87.1
Dotted sixteenth0.375158.56.31
Sixteenth note0.25105.69.47
Sixteenth triplet0.16770.414.2
Thirty-second note0.12552.818.93

Half time 71 BPM · double time 284 BPM. Every row is one beat (422.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Tainted LoveSoft CellG minor145BPM

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. ToxicBritney SpearsC minor143BPM
  2. LowFoo FightersC minor144BPM
  3. This Is Where You Can Reach Me NowU2C minor144BPM
  4. Crank That (Soulja Boy)Soulja Boy Tell ’EmC minor140BPM
  5. No Good (Start the Dance)The ProdigyC minor145BPM
  6. Keine LustRammsteinC minor138BPM
  7. Break & EnterThe ProdigyC minor138BPM
  8. Dark LadyCherC minor147BPM
  9. Lost and Lookin’Sam CookeC minor148BPM
  10. A Question of TimeDepeche ModeC minor136BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 142 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 142 BPMC minor at 140–149 BPMMarilyn Manson

MusicBrainz collapses 48 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7cd3782d-86dc-4dd1-8d9b-e37f9cbe6b94.