The B‐52s · Wild Planet
Private Idaho
Private Idaho is in A minor at 165.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
166 BPM · Vivacemedian of 216 analyses · 165.1–165.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 216people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 362.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.01dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.863Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.268Essentia'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
216 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 216 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 165.6 BPM one beat lasts 362.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.6 ms and a dotted eighth 271.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 331.2. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 4.01 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 0.863 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 166 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1449.3 | 0.69 |
| Half note | 2 | 724.6 | 1.38 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 543.5 | 1.84 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 362.3 | 2.76 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 241.5 | 4.14 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 271.7 | 3.68 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 181.2 | 5.52 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 120.8 | 8.28 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 135.9 | 7.36 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 90.6 | 11.04 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.4 | 16.56 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.3 | 22.08 |
Half time 82.8 BPM · double time 331.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (362.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Polythene PamThe BeatlesA minor166BPM
- Lonely BoyThe Black KeysA minor166BPM
- Hey JoeJimi HendrixA minor165BPM
- Hey JoeThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceA minor165BPM
- The MovieAerosmithA minor166BPM
- Bullet in the HeadRage Against the MachineA minor165BPM
- Last to KnowP!nkA minor164BPM
- Breaking the LawJudas PriestA minor164BPM
- D’yer Mak’erLed ZeppelinA minor164BPM
- WiggleJason Derulo feat. Snoop DoggA minor164BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 166 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 166 BPMA minor at 160–169 BPMThe B‐52s
MusicBrainz collapses 42 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1033f216-2239-4c9e-a5e6-d6aa4bde3650.