Queen · Innuendo
Headlong
Headlong is in D minor at 143.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
144 BPM · Allegromedian of 256 analyses · 143.8–143.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 85%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 256people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 417milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.21dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.902Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.194Essentia'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
256 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 85% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 256 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 143.9 BPM one beat lasts 417 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.2 ms and a dotted eighth 312.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72 BPM, counted twice as fast 287.8. 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 2.21 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 0.902 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 D 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 D minor
Each of these differs from D 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 144 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1667.8 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 833.9 | 1.2 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 625.4 | 1.6 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 417 | 2.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 278 | 3.6 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 312.7 | 3.2 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 208.5 | 4.8 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 139 | 7.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 156.4 | 6.4 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 104.2 | 9.59 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.5 | 14.39 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.1 | 19.19 |
Half time 72 BPM · double time 287.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (417 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The WeightThe BandD minor144BPM
- Paradise (Not for Me)MadonnaD minor144BPM
- SorceryTim DaviesD minor144BPM
- Red BarchettaRushD minor144BPM
- I Want You (She’s So Heavy)The BeatlesD minor143BPM
- Under My WheelsAlice CooperD minor143BPM
- FreedomRage Against the MachineD minor145BPM
- Can’t Stand Losing YouThe PoliceD minor143BPM
- DOAFoo FightersD minor146BPM
- Weeping WallDavid BowieD minor142BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 144 BPMD minor at 140–149 BPMQueen
MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 399f804f-c033-4875-a8d6-425a77ed861f.