Pearl Jam · Ten
Black
Black is in A minor at 153.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
154 BPM · Allegromedian of 144 analyses · 153.3–154.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 92%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 144people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 390.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.47dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.756Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.004Essentia'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. Most of them — 92% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 153.3 to 154.4 BPM.
At 153.6 BPM one beat lasts 390.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.7 ms and a dotted eighth 293 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 307.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 5.47 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 0.756 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 A 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A 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 154 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1562.5 | 0.64 |
| Half note | 2 | 781.3 | 1.28 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 585.9 | 1.71 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 390.6 | 2.56 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 260.4 | 3.84 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 293 | 3.41 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 195.3 | 5.12 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 130.2 | 7.68 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 146.5 | 6.83 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 97.7 | 10.24 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65.1 | 15.36 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48.8 | 20.48 |
Half time 76.8 BPM · double time 307.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (390.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- It Could Be SweetPortisheadA minor154BPM
- Pump ItThe Black Eyed PeasA minor153BPM
- Ticks & LeechesToolA minor153BPM
- Ten Years GoneLed ZeppelinA minor153BPM
- Sir Psycho SexyRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor154BPM
- Who by FireLeonard CohenA minor155BPM
- Une colombeCéline DionA minor155BPM
- RunawayBon JoviA minor152BPM
- The ChainFleetwood MacA minor152BPM
- WelcomeChristina AguileraA minor155BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 154 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 154 BPMA minor at 150–159 BPMPearl Jam
MusicBrainz collapses 627 recording ids into this one. Recording id 35cbb45d-0b40-415e-9301-f43fec4e1497.