Supertramp · Crime of the Century
Crime of the Century
Crime of the Century is in A minor at 125.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
126 BPM · Allegromedian of 209 analyses · 125.7–125.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 209people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 476.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.63dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.627Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.004Essentia'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
209 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 209 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 125.8 BPM one beat lasts 476.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119.2 ms and a dotted eighth 357.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 251.6. 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 6.63 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 0.627 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 126 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1907.8 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 953.9 | 1.05 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 715.4 | 1.4 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 476.9 | 2.1 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 318 | 3.15 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 357.7 | 2.8 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 238.5 | 4.19 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 159 | 6.29 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 178.9 | 5.59 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 119.2 | 8.39 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 79.5 | 12.58 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.6 | 16.77 |
Half time 62.9 BPM · double time 251.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (476.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- When I Get HomeThe BeatlesA minor126BPM
- Words (Between the Lines of Age)Neil YoungA minor126BPM
- Hey Everybody!5 Seconds of SummerA minor126BPM
- I CryFlo RidaA minor126BPM
- Around the World / Harder Better Faster StrongerDaft PunkA minor126BPM
- Fade to BlackMetallicaA minor126BPM
- Almost BlueElvis Costello & The AttractionsA minor126BPM
- The Sun Always Shines on T.V.a‐haA minor126BPM
- Pictures of LilyThe WhoA minor127BPM
- And She WasTalking HeadsA minor127BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 126 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMSupertramp
MusicBrainz collapses 33 recording ids into this one. Recording id a03c90c4-312b-482d-b33e-3be161cd1679.