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I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)

I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) is in A major at 148.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

149 BPM · Allegromedian of 149 analyses · 148.9–149 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
149people who ran the extractor
One beat
403milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.47dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.807Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.923Essentia'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

149 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 149 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 148.9 BPM one beat lasts 403 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 100.7 ms and a dotted eighth 302.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 297.8. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 5.47 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 0.807 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 149 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41611.80.62
Half note2805.91.24
Dotted quarter1.5604.41.65
Quarter note (one beat)14032.48
Quarter triplet0.667268.63.72
Dotted eighth0.75302.23.31
Eighth note0.5201.54.96
Eighth triplet0.333134.37.45
Dotted sixteenth0.375151.16.62
Sixteenth note0.25100.79.93
Sixteenth triplet0.16767.214.89
Thirty-second note0.12550.419.85

Half time 74.5 BPM · double time 297.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (403 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Do What You LikeBlind FaithA major149BPM
  2. So Much IRed Hot Chili PeppersA major149BPM
  3. Industrial DiseaseDire StraitsA major149BPM
  4. God Save the QueenSex PistolsA major148BPM
  5. To Build a HomeThe Cinematic OrchestraA major148BPM
  6. Three Little BirdsBob Marley & The WailersA major148BPM
  7. Lady WriterDire StraitsA major148BPM
  8. ButterflyCorinne Bailey RaeA major148BPM
  9. Already GoneKelly ClarksonA major148BPM
  10. No RainBlind MelonA major150BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 149 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 149 BPMA major at 140–149 BPMThe 1975

MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 81c3eb6e-d8f4-423c-9007-694aefe62754.