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Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? is in F major at 98 beats per minute.
Tempo
98 BPM · Andantemedian of 221 analyses · 98–98.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 221people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 612.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.96dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.792Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.04Essentia'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
221 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 221 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 98 BPM one beat lasts 612.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 153.1 ms and a dotted eighth 459.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49 BPM, counted twice as fast 196. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.96 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 0.792 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 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 98 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2449 | 0.41 |
| Half note | 2 | 1224.5 | 0.82 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 918.4 | 1.09 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 612.2 | 1.63 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 408.2 | 2.45 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 459.2 | 2.18 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 306.1 | 3.27 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 204.1 | 4.9 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 229.6 | 4.36 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 153.1 | 6.53 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 102 | 9.8 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 76.5 | 13.07 |
Half time 49 BPM · double time 196 BPM. Every row is one beat (612.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- AyoChris Brown & TygaF major98BPM
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- Hold OnWilson PhillipsF major98BPM
- I Can’t See Myself Leaving YouAretha FranklinF major98BPM
- Scenes From an Italian RestaurantBilly JoelF major98BPM
- Love Don’t Cost a ThingJennifer LopezF major98BPM
- Synchronicity IThe PoliceF major99BPM
- The Wall Street Shuffle10ccF major99BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 98 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 98 BPMF major at 90–99 BPMMoby
MusicBrainz collapses 59 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4a234158-148e-44bb-961b-ce9302027269.