TempoPeek

Pet Shop Boys · Actually

Always on My Mind

Always on My Mind is in G major at 124.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

125 BPM · Allegromedian of 156 analyses · 124.8–124.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
156people who ran the extractor
One beat
480.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.96dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.947Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.115Essentia'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

156 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 156 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 124.9 BPM one beat lasts 480.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120.1 ms and a dotted eighth 360.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 249.8. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 2.96 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 0.947 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 125 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41921.50.52
Half note2960.81.04
Dotted quarter1.5720.61.39
Quarter note (one beat)1480.42.08
Quarter triplet0.667320.33.12
Dotted eighth0.75360.32.78
Eighth note0.5240.24.16
Eighth triplet0.333160.16.25
Dotted sixteenth0.375180.15.55
Sixteenth note0.25120.18.33
Sixteenth triplet0.16780.112.49
Thirty-second note0.1256016.65

Half time 62.5 BPM · double time 249.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (480.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Always on My MindWillie NelsonD major147BPM

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. Midnight FlyerNat King ColeG major125BPM
  2. Poles ApartPink FloydG major125BPM
  3. In a World Like ThisBackstreet BoysG major125BPM
  4. Hold MeFleetwood MacG major125BPM
  5. Is There Something I Should Know?Duran DuranG major125BPM
  6. Not a Second TimeThe BeatlesG major125BPM
  7. Bad LoveEric ClaptonG major125BPM
  8. AishaJohn ColtraneG major125BPM
  9. PhysicalOlivia Newton‐JohnG major124BPM
  10. Can’t Get You Off My MindLenny KravitzG major124BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 125 BPMG major at 120–129 BPMPet Shop Boys

MusicBrainz collapses 32 recording ids into this one. Recording id 682040b8-8e57-4b24-9844-4526d17dd394.