TempoPeek

Queen · The Game

Play the Game

Play the Game is in C major at 155.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

155 BPM · Allegromedian of 331 analyses · 120–155.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
331people who ran the extractor
One beat
386.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.1dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.811Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.919Essentia'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

331 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 331 readings; 82% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 120 to 155.6 BPM.

At 155.4 BPM one beat lasts 386.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 96.5 ms and a dotted eighth 289.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 310.8. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 5.1 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 0.811 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 155 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41544.40.65
Half note2772.21.3
Dotted quarter1.5579.21.73
Quarter note (one beat)1386.12.59
Quarter triplet0.667257.43.89
Dotted eighth0.75289.63.45
Eighth note0.5193.15.18
Eighth triplet0.333128.77.77
Dotted sixteenth0.375144.86.91
Sixteenth note0.2596.510.36
Sixteenth triplet0.16764.415.54
Thirty-second note0.12548.320.72

Half time 77.7 BPM · double time 310.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (386.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Jet Pack BluesFall Out BoyC major155BPM
  2. Show MeBruno MarsC major155BPM
  3. La BambaLos LobosC major156BPM
  4. No Woman, No CryBob Marley & The WailersC major156BPM
  5. Bringin’ On the HeartbreakDef LeppardC major155BPM
  6. ChangeLana Del ReyC major155BPM
  7. Walk – Don’t RunThe VenturesC major155BPM
  8. CarolChuck BerryC major156BPM
  9. So LonelyThe PoliceC major155BPM
  10. Let There Be More LightPink FloydC major155BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 155 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 155 BPMC major at 150–159 BPMQueen

MusicBrainz collapses 34 recording ids into this one. Recording id fd69655e-91e3-42d5-8cb5-27e3a3784067.