Queen · Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Flash
Flash is in A minor at 109 beats per minute.
Tempo
109 BPM · Moderatomedian of 181 analyses · 108.7–110.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 79%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 181people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 550.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.94dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.369Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.022Essentia'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
181 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 181 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 108.7 to 110.4 BPM.
At 109 BPM one beat lasts 550.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 137.6 ms and a dotted eighth 412.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 218. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 5.94 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 0.369 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 109 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2201.8 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1100.9 | 0.91 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 825.7 | 1.21 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 550.5 | 1.82 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 367 | 2.73 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 412.8 | 2.42 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 275.2 | 3.63 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 183.5 | 5.45 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 206.4 | 4.84 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 137.6 | 7.27 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 91.7 | 10.9 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 68.8 | 14.53 |
Half time 54.5 BPM · double time 218 BPM. Every row is one beat (550.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Stand Up and ShoutDioA minor109BPM
- When Big Joan Sets UpCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandA minor109BPM
- Tighten UpThe Black KeysA minor109BPM
- Fast CompanyEaglesA minor109BPM
- SivaSmashing PumpkinsA minor110BPM
- The FlyU2A minor108BPM
- xannyBillie EilishA minor110BPM
- Another One Bites the DustQueenA minor110BPM
- Letter to HermioneDavid BowieA minor108BPM
- FascinationDavid BowieA minor108BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 109 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 109 BPMA minor at 100–109 BPMQueen
MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id e61e12a1-118a-4441-9a58-b5eaff2ce9bc.