TempoPeek

Sam Cooke · The Essential Sam Cooke Collection 4

Twistin’ the Night Away

Twistin’ the Night Away is in A major at 80.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

80 BPM · Andantemedian of 140 analyses · 80.3–80.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
140people who ran the extractor
One beat
746.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.55dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.869Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.276Essentia'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

140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 80.4 BPM one beat lasts 746.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 186.6 ms and a dotted eighth 559.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 40.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 160.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 4.55 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 0.869 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 80 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42985.10.34
Half note21492.50.67
Dotted quarter1.51119.40.89
Quarter note (one beat)1746.31.34
Quarter triplet0.667497.52.01
Dotted eighth0.75559.71.79
Eighth note0.5373.12.68
Eighth triplet0.333248.84.02
Dotted sixteenth0.375279.93.57
Sixteenth note0.25186.65.36
Sixteenth triplet0.167124.48.04
Thirty-second note0.12593.310.72

Half time 40.2 BPM · double time 160.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (746.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. OmahaCounting CrowsA major81BPM
  2. HaloBeyoncéA major80BPM
  3. Blue ChristmasCéline DionA major80BPM
  4. Heal the WorldMichael JacksonA major81BPM
  5. In the CityEaglesA major81BPM
  6. Painter SongNorah JonesA major79BPM
  7. Take Me Home, Country RoadsJohn DenverA major82BPM
  8. Shooting StarBad CompanyA major83BPM
  9. Dreamin’ of YouCéline DionA major83BPM
  10. This I Promise You*NSYNCA major83BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 80 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 80 BPMA major at 80–89 BPMSam Cooke

MusicBrainz collapses 72 recording ids into this one. Recording id cdc8b081-3eb1-4af8-8829-9df74e857a3f.