Queen · A Kind of Magic
Pain Is So Close to Pleasure
Pain Is So Close to Pleasure is in A minor at 112.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 141 analyses · 112.1–112.2 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
- 141people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 534.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.51dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.858Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.238Essentia'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
141 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 141 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 112.2 BPM one beat lasts 534.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.7 ms and a dotted eighth 401.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 224.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 3.51 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 0.858 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 112 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2139 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1069.5 | 0.94 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 802.1 | 1.25 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 534.8 | 1.87 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 356.5 | 2.81 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 401.1 | 2.49 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 267.4 | 3.74 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 178.3 | 5.61 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 200.5 | 4.99 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 133.7 | 7.48 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 89.1 | 11.22 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66.8 | 14.96 |
Half time 56.1 BPM · double time 224.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (534.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- HeadphonesBjörkA minor112BPM
- Hot Hot Hot!!!The CureA minor112BPM
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- Black MagicLittle MixA minor112BPM
- MeltdownAC/DCA minor112BPM
- Rime of the Ancient MarinerIron MaidenA minor113BPM
- Runnin’ BlueThe DoorsA minor112BPM
- YesBeyoncéA minor113BPM
- YouRadioheadA minor112BPM
- Giorgio by MoroderDaft Punk feat. Giorgio MoroderA minor113BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 112 BPMA minor at 110–119 BPMQueen
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id acece5a2-8a91-4c70-acdc-76f1eaedc642.