Meghan Trainor · Title

Dear Future Husband

Dear Future Husband is in F sharp minor at 79.4 beats per minute.

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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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note43022.70.33
Half note21511.30.66
Dotted quarter1.51133.50.88
Quarter note (one beat)1755.71.32
Quarter triplet0.667503.81.99
Dotted eighth0.75566.81.76
Eighth note0.5377.82.65
Eighth triplet0.333251.93.97
Dotted sixteenth0.375283.43.53
Sixteenth note0.25188.95.29
Sixteenth triplet0.167125.97.94
Thirty-second note0.12594.510.59

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

  1. OblivionGrimesF♯ minor78BPM
  2. DriveCurren$y feat. Young Roddy & Styles PF♯ minor76BPM
  3. Shape of My HeartStingF♯ minor84BPM
  4. Black MilkMassive AttackF♯ minor84BPM
  5. Rise & FallCraig David feat. StingF♯ minor84BPM
  6. PedestalPortisheadF♯ minor84BPM
  7. Acid RainChance the RapperF♯ minor85BPM
  8. No DiggityBlackstreet featuring Dr. DreF♯ minor89BPM
  9. It’s a FirePortisheadF♯ minor89BPM
  10. 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.