Massive Attack · Mezzanine

Teardrop

Teardrop is in D minor at 153.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

154 BPM · Allegromedian of 203 analyses · 77–153.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
80%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
203people who ran the extractor
One beat
390.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.1dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.853Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.351Essentia'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

203 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 80% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 203 readings; 63% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 77 to 153.9 BPM.

At 153.7 BPM one beat lasts 390.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.6 ms and a dotted eighth 292.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 307.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 5.1 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 0.853 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 D 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D 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 154 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41561.50.64
Half note2780.71.28
Dotted quarter1.5585.61.71
Quarter note (one beat)1390.42.56
Quarter triplet0.667260.23.84
Dotted eighth0.75292.83.42
Eighth note0.5195.25.12
Eighth triplet0.333130.17.69
Dotted sixteenth0.375146.46.83
Sixteenth note0.2597.610.25
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.115.37
Thirty-second note0.12548.820.49

Half time 76.9 BPM · double time 307.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (390.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Black CelebrationDepeche ModeD minor154BPM
  2. Crazy Little Thing Called LoveQueenD minor153BPM
  3. Southern ManCrosby, Stills, Nash & YoungD minor153BPM
  4. I TryMacy GrayD minor153BPM
  5. FireThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceD minor155BPM
  6. It Don’t Matter to MeBreadD minor155BPM
  7. ElectioneeringRadioheadD minor155BPM
  8. My Head’s in MississippiZZ TopD minor152BPM
  9. My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ’Em Up)Fall Out BoyD minor152BPM
  10. Maybe I’m AmazedPaul McCartneyD minor156BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 154 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 154 BPMD minor at 150–159 BPMMassive Attack

MusicBrainz collapses 53 recording ids into this one. Recording id f3bba4cd-8018-468b-902e-bc8f029593e5.