TempoPeek

Ramones · Halfway to Sanity

I Wanna Live

I Wanna Live is in E minor at 154.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

155 BPM · Allegromedian of 178 analyses · 154.8–155 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
66%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
178people who ran the extractor
One beat
387.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.93dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.908Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.222Essentia'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

178 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 66% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 178 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 154.8 BPM one beat lasts 387.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 96.9 ms and a dotted eighth 290.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 309.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 2.93 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 0.908 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 E 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E 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 155 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41550.40.65
Half note2775.21.29
Dotted quarter1.5581.41.72
Quarter note (one beat)1387.62.58
Quarter triplet0.667258.43.87
Dotted eighth0.75290.73.44
Eighth note0.5193.85.16
Eighth triplet0.333129.27.74
Dotted sixteenth0.375145.36.88
Sixteenth note0.2596.910.32
Sixteenth triplet0.16764.615.48
Thirty-second note0.12548.420.64

Half time 77.4 BPM · double time 309.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (387.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Climbing Up the WallsRadioheadE minor155BPM
  2. EffigyCreedence Clearwater RevivalE minor154BPM
  3. WomenForeignerE minor154BPM
  4. Paint It BlackThe Rolling StonesE minor156BPM
  5. UnderstandChristina AguileraE minor156BPM
  6. Private InvestigationsDire StraitsE minor153BPM
  7. The Better Life3 Doors DownE minor153BPM
  8. Shake a LegAC/DCE minor153BPM
  9. The TrialPink FloydE minor152BPM
  10. StopPink FloydE minor151BPM

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

All songs in E minorAll songs at 155 BPME minor at 150–159 BPMRamones

MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5fc7d416-5acd-45d4-8615-f375ac458d63.