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Anarchy in the U.K.
Anarchy in the U.K. is in C major at 133.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
134 BPM · Allegromedian of 231 analyses · 133.8–134.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 231people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 448.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 447.2Hz · +28 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 1.24dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.965Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.224Essentia'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
231 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 231 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 133.9 BPM one beat lasts 448.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 112 ms and a dotted eighth 336.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67 BPM, counted twice as fast 267.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.2 Hz, which is 28 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 1.24 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 0.965 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 134 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1792.4 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 896.2 | 1.12 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 672.1 | 1.49 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 448.1 | 2.23 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 298.7 | 3.35 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 336.1 | 2.98 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 224 | 4.46 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 149.4 | 6.7 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 168 | 5.95 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 112 | 8.93 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74.7 | 13.39 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56 | 17.85 |
Half time 67 BPM · double time 267.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (448.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Les Chemins de ma maisonCéline DionC major134BPM
- I’ll Follow the SunThe BeatlesC major133BPM
- I’d Die for YouBon JoviC major133BPM
- I’m Into Something GoodHerman’s HermitsC major135BPM
- Dancing on the CeilingLionel RichieC major133BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 134 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 134 BPMC major at 130–139 BPMSex Pistols
MusicBrainz collapses 116 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1f5d0031-53e0-4050-92dd-4b7657c01d27.