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The One I Love
The One I Love is in A major at 127.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
128 BPM · Allegromedian of 291 analyses · 127.7–128 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 90%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 291people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 469.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.1dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.921Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.044Essentia'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
291 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 291 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 127.8 BPM one beat lasts 469.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.4 ms and a dotted eighth 352.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 255.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 cents above 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 3.1 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 0.921 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 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 128 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1877.9 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 939 | 1.07 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 704.2 | 1.42 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 469.5 | 2.13 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 313 | 3.2 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 352.1 | 2.84 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 234.7 | 4.26 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 156.5 | 6.39 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 176.1 | 5.68 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 117.4 | 8.52 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.2 | 12.78 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.7 | 17.04 |
Half time 63.9 BPM · double time 255.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (469.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Listen to Her HeartTom Petty and the HeartbreakersA major128BPM
- The Veldt (8 minute edit)deadmau5 feat. Chris JamesA major128BPM
- If I Needed SomeoneThe BeatlesA major128BPM
- The Veldt (Tommy Trash remix)deadmau5 feat. Chris JamesA major128BPM
- Waiting for LoveAviciiA major128BPM
- BubblyColbie CaillatA major128BPM
- Bedlam in BelgiumAC/DCA major128BPM
- Hold On Loosely.38 SpecialA major128BPM
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)Michael JacksonA major127BPM
- Say You Love MeFleetwood MacA major128BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 128 BPMA major at 120–129 BPMR.E.M.
MusicBrainz collapses 54 recording ids into this one. Recording id beb7d493-3437-485d-b21b-14d0ac46b211.