TempoPeek

Michael Jackson · Dangerous

Gone Too Soon

Gone Too Soon is in B major at 145.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

145 BPM · Allegromedian of 166 analyses · 140.5–146.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
166people who ran the extractor
One beat
412.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.36dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.127Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.868Essentia'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

166 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 166 readings; 89% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 140.5 to 146.9 BPM.

At 145.4 BPM one beat lasts 412.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 103.2 ms and a dotted eighth 309.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 290.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 6.36 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 0.127 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 145 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41650.60.61
Half note2825.31.21
Dotted quarter1.56191.62
Quarter note (one beat)1412.72.42
Quarter triplet0.667275.13.64
Dotted eighth0.75309.53.23
Eighth note0.5206.34.85
Eighth triplet0.333137.67.27
Dotted sixteenth0.375154.76.46
Sixteenth note0.25103.29.69
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.814.54
Thirty-second note0.12551.619.39

Half time 72.7 BPM · double time 290.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (412.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. You Can Let GoBackstreet BoysB major146BPM
  2. I Don’t Like MondaysThe Boomtown RatsB major144BPM
  3. I Remember YouRamonesB major144BPM
  4. Spiral ArchitectBlack SabbathB major143BPM
  5. Dead on TimeQueenB major143BPM
  6. How to Draw / PetrichorThe 1975B major148BPM
  7. London’s BurningThe ClashB major148BPM
  8. Swallowed in the SeaColdplayB major142BPM
  9. Flora’s SecretEnyaB major142BPM
  10. Dancing in the DarkBruce SpringsteenB major149BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 145 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 145 BPMB major at 140–149 BPMMichael Jackson

MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id e180a419-6d1f-4d27-9eca-0678e78742a0.