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It Could Be Sweet
It Could Be Sweet is in A minor at 153.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
154 BPM · Allegromedian of 174 analyses · 153.9–153.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 174people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 389.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.33dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.918Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.192Essentia'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
174 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 174 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 153.9 BPM one beat lasts 389.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.5 ms and a dotted eighth 292.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77 BPM, counted twice as fast 307.8. 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 4.33 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 0.918 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 | 1559.5 | 0.64 |
| Half note | 2 | 779.7 | 1.28 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 584.8 | 1.71 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 389.9 | 2.57 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 259.9 | 3.85 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 292.4 | 3.42 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 194.9 | 5.13 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 130 | 7.7 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 146.2 | 6.84 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 97.5 | 10.26 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65 | 15.39 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48.7 | 20.52 |
Half time 77 BPM · double time 307.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (389.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Pump ItThe Black Eyed PeasA minor153BPM
- Une colombeCéline DionA minor155BPM
- Ticks & LeechesToolA minor153BPM
- Ten Years GoneLed ZeppelinA minor153BPM
- WelcomeChristina AguileraA minor155BPM
- Wooden ShipsCrosby, Stills & NashA minor155BPM
- Those ShoesEaglesA 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 BPMPortishead
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id c837f888-d471-4b07-bcbc-1b9f7406ec1a.