Tears for Fears · Songs From the Big Chair
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Everybody Wants to Rule the World is in D major at 112 beats per minute.
Tempo
112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 315 analyses · 111.8–112.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 315people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 535.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 450.8Hz · +42 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.13dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.929Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.235Essentia'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
315 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 315 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 112 BPM one beat lasts 535.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.9 ms and a dotted eighth 401.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56 BPM, counted twice as fast 224. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 450.8 Hz, which is 42 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 3.13 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 0.929 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 112 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2142.9 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1071.4 | 0.93 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 803.6 | 1.24 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 535.7 | 1.87 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 357.1 | 2.8 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 401.8 | 2.49 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 267.9 | 3.73 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 178.6 | 5.6 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 200.9 | 4.98 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 133.9 | 7.47 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 89.3 | 11.2 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 67 | 14.93 |
Half time 56 BPM · double time 224 BPM. Every row is one beat (535.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Robot RockDaft PunkD major112BPM
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- CoolGwen StefaniD major112BPM
- My Old ManJoni MitchellD major112BPM
- Along Comes a WomanChicagoD major112BPM
- Get DownAudio AdrenalineD major112BPM
- LionsDire StraitsD major112BPM
- Mardy BumArctic MonkeysD major112BPM
- Mistress for ChristmasAC/DCD major113BPM
- Certain Kind of FoolEaglesD major113BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 112 BPMD major at 110–119 BPMTears for Fears
MusicBrainz collapses 62 recording ids into this one. Recording id e4b347be-ecb2-44ff-aaa8-3d4c517d7ea5.