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Working Man
Working Man is in A minor at 154.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
155 BPM · Allegromedian of 181 analyses · 143.6–154.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 44%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 181people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 388.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 1.43dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.963Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.277Essentia'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
181 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 44% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 181 readings; 80% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 143.6 to 154.7 BPM.
At 154.6 BPM one beat lasts 388.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97 ms and a dotted eighth 291.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 309.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 1.43 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 0.963 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 155 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1552.4 | 0.64 |
| Half note | 2 | 776.2 | 1.29 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 582.1 | 1.72 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 388.1 | 2.58 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 258.7 | 3.87 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 291.1 | 3.44 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 194 | 5.15 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 129.4 | 7.73 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 145.5 | 6.87 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 97 | 10.31 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 64.7 | 15.46 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48.5 | 20.61 |
Half time 77.3 BPM · double time 309.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (388.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Who by FireLeonard CohenA minor155BPM
- Une colombeCéline DionA minor155BPM
- Sir Psycho SexyRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor154BPM
- WelcomeChristina AguileraA minor155BPM
- It Could Be SweetPortisheadA minor154BPM
- Wooden ShipsCrosby, Stills & NashA minor155BPM
- Those ShoesEaglesA minor155BPM
- So Much Trouble in the WorldBob Marley & The WailersA minor155BPM
- Ain’t No SunshineBill WithersA minor155BPM
- SaraBob DylanA minor156BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 155 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 155 BPMA minor at 150–159 BPMRush
MusicBrainz collapses 76 recording ids into this one. Recording id 16667568-ccc7-4ee3-9617-b899f9972224.