TempoPeek

Ray Charles · Ray Charles in LA

Hallelujah I Love Her So

Hallelujah I Love Her So is in B flat major at 147.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

148 BPM · Allegromedian of 298 analyses · 147.4–148.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
298people who ran the extractor
One beat
406.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
453.2Hz · +51 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.14dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.697Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.296Essentia'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

298 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 298 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 147.6 BPM one beat lasts 406.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.6 ms and a dotted eighth 304.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 295.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 453.2 Hz, which is 51 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 6.14 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 0.697 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 B flat 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 B♭ major

Each of these differs from B♭ 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 148 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note416260.62
Half note28131.23
Dotted quarter1.5609.81.64
Quarter note (one beat)1406.52.46
Quarter triplet0.6672713.69
Dotted eighth0.75304.93.28
Eighth note0.5203.34.92
Eighth triplet0.333135.57.38
Dotted sixteenth0.375152.46.56
Sixteenth note0.25101.69.84
Sixteenth triplet0.16767.814.76
Thirty-second note0.12550.819.68

Half time 73.8 BPM · double time 295.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (406.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. UnisonBjörkB♭ major148BPM
  2. A Woman Left LonelyJanis JoplinB♭ major148BPM
  3. Star67DrakeB♭ major147BPM
  4. Army of One / [X Marks the Spot]ColdplayB♭ major148BPM
  5. Hey JudeThe BeatlesB♭ major148BPM
  6. Smokin & DrinkinDanny BrownB♭ major147BPM
  7. Highway 61 RevisitedBob DylanB♭ major147BPM
  8. Monkey ManAmy WinehouseB♭ major147BPM
  9. Perfect DayLou ReedB♭ major147BPM
  10. IsraelitesDesmond Dekker & the AcesB♭ major147BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 148 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 148 BPMB♭ major at 140–149 BPMRay Charles

MusicBrainz collapses 125 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3e69581e-1e14-47fe-a7cb-377b0311db05.