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The Beatles · Please Please Me

I Saw Her Standing There

I Saw Her Standing There is in A major at 161.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

162 BPM · Vivacemedian of 212 analyses · 155.9–162.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
77%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
212people who ran the extractor
One beat
370.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.7Hz · -9 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.16dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.908Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.197Essentia'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

212 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 77% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 212 readings; 86% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 155.9 to 162.2 BPM.

At 161.9 BPM one beat lasts 370.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.6 ms and a dotted eighth 277.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81 BPM, counted twice as fast 323.8. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.7 Hz, which is 9 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 2.16 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 0.908 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 162 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41482.40.67
Half note2741.21.35
Dotted quarter1.5555.91.8
Quarter note (one beat)1370.62.7
Quarter triplet0.667247.14.05
Dotted eighth0.75277.93.6
Eighth note0.5185.35.4
Eighth triplet0.333123.58.1
Dotted sixteenth0.3751397.2
Sixteenth note0.2592.610.79
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.816.19
Thirty-second note0.12546.321.59

Half time 81 BPM · double time 323.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (370.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Two out of Three Ain’t BadMeat LoafA major162BPM
  2. Synchronicity IIThe PoliceA major162BPM
  3. Come Live With Me AngelMarvin GayeA major162BPM
  4. WheelsFoo FightersA major162BPM
  5. ForgivenAlanis MorissetteA major162BPM
  6. What I Like About YouThe RomanticsA major162BPM
  7. Running Out of Days3 Doors DownA major162BPM
  8. Viðrar vel til loftárásaSigur RósA major163BPM
  9. The Girl Is MineMichael Jackson with Paul McCartneyA major163BPM
  10. Trapped Under IceMetallicaA major163BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 162 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 162 BPMA major at 160–169 BPMThe Beatles

MusicBrainz collapses 250 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0e04d324-4710-422e-8a4a-1d7362caa5ad.