Neil Diamond · Wild at Heart

America

America is in F major at 125.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

126 BPM · Allegromedian of 300 analyses · 125.7–126 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
300people who ran the extractor
One beat
477.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.862Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.289Essentia'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

300 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 300 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 125.7 BPM one beat lasts 477.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119.3 ms and a dotted eighth 358 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 251.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 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 0.862 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 126 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41909.30.52
Half note2954.71.05
Dotted quarter1.57161.4
Quarter note (one beat)1477.32.1
Quarter triplet0.667318.23.14
Dotted eighth0.753582.79
Eighth note0.5238.74.19
Eighth triplet0.333159.16.29
Dotted sixteenth0.3751795.59
Sixteenth note0.25119.38.38
Sixteenth triplet0.16779.612.57
Thirty-second note0.12559.716.76

Half time 62.9 BPM · double time 251.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (477.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. AmericaSimon & GarfunkelD major178BPM
  2. AmericaImagine DragonsF major113BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. SOSABBAF major126BPM
  2. By the WayRed Hot Chili PeppersF major126BPM
  3. Love Me in a Special WayDeBargeF major126BPM
  4. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)Captain Beefheart & His Magic BandF major126BPM
  5. Addicted to You (Avicii by Avicii)AviciiF major126BPM
  6. Missing YouThe Black Eyed PeasF major126BPM
  7. GoneKelly ClarksonF major126BPM
  8. Shout Out to My ExLittle MixF major126BPM
  9. Follow MeCraig DavidF major126BPM
  10. VowGarbageF major126BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 126 BPMF major at 120–129 BPMNeil Diamond

MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2e7a5dd5-1f41-47fc-b033-4762427a2858.