Meghan Trainor · Title
Dear Future Husband
Dear Future Husband is in F sharp minor at 79.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
79 BPM · Andantemedian of 144 analyses · 79.4–161.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F♯ minor3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 60%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 144people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 755.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.76dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.887Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.139Essentia'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
144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 60% — put it in F sharp minor, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 82% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 79.4 to 161.6 BPM.
At 79.4 BPM one beat lasts 755.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 188.9 ms and a dotted eighth 566.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 39.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 158.8. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.76 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 0.887 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 F sharp 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 F♯ minor
Each of these differs from F♯ 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 79 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 3022.7 | 0.33 |
| Half note | 2 | 1511.3 | 0.66 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1133.5 | 0.88 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 755.7 | 1.32 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 503.8 | 1.99 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 566.8 | 1.76 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 377.8 | 2.65 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 251.9 | 3.97 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 283.4 | 3.53 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 188.9 | 5.29 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 125.9 | 7.94 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 94.5 | 10.59 |
Half time 39.7 BPM · double time 158.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (755.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- OblivionGrimesF♯ minor78BPM
- DriveCurren$y feat. Young Roddy & Styles PF♯ minor76BPM
- Shape of My HeartStingF♯ minor84BPM
- Black MilkMassive AttackF♯ minor84BPM
- Rise & FallCraig David feat. StingF♯ minor84BPM
- PedestalPortisheadF♯ minor84BPM
- Acid RainChance the RapperF♯ minor85BPM
- No DiggityBlackstreet featuring Dr. DreF♯ minor89BPM
- It’s a FirePortisheadF♯ minor89BPM
- I Hate Everything About YouThree Days GraceF♯ minor89BPM
Recordings in F sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 79 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F sharp minorAll songs at 79 BPMMeghan Trainor
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id a19628b1-5ffd-4332-8558-755a7b497021.