TempoPeek

The 1975 · The 1975

An Encounter

An Encounter is in E major at 99.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

100 BPM · Andantemedian of 142 analyses · 99.5–99.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
142people who ran the extractor
One beat
603milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
10.08dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.727Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.924Essentia'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

142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 99.5 BPM one beat lasts 603 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 150.8 ms and a dotted eighth 452.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 199. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 10.08 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 0.727 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 100 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42412.10.41
Half note212060.83
Dotted quarter1.5904.51.11
Quarter note (one beat)16031.66
Quarter triplet0.6674022.49
Dotted eighth0.75452.32.21
Eighth note0.5301.53.32
Eighth triplet0.3332014.98
Dotted sixteenth0.375226.14.42
Sixteenth note0.25150.86.63
Sixteenth triplet0.167100.59.95
Thirty-second note0.12575.413.27

Half time 49.8 BPM · double time 199 BPM. Every row is one beat (603 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Dark as a DungeonJohnny CashE major100BPM
  2. My WeaknessMobyE major99BPM
  3. RobbersThe 1975E major100BPM
  4. I Wanna Be Your ManThe BeatlesE major99BPM
  5. Love YourselfJustin BieberE major100BPM
  6. We Don’t Talk AnymoreCharlie Puth feat. Selena GomezE major100BPM
  7. IsobelBjörkE major100BPM
  8. La isla bonitaMadonnaE major100BPM
  9. QuietSmashing PumpkinsE major99BPM
  10. Extreme WaysMobyE major100BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 100 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 100 BPME major at 90–99 BPMThe 1975

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 94b040b5-c1af-48d8-afb6-65d11972ff04.