TempoPeek

The Beatles · Rubber Soul

It’s Only Love

It’s Only Love is in C major at 113.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 131 analyses · 113–113.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
90%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
131people who ran the extractor
One beat
530.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.02dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.788Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.954Essentia'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

131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 113.1 BPM one beat lasts 530.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 132.6 ms and a dotted eighth 397.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 226.2. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 4.02 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 0.788 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 113 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note421220.47
Half note210610.94
Dotted quarter1.5795.81.26
Quarter note (one beat)1530.51.89
Quarter triplet0.667353.72.83
Dotted eighth0.75397.92.51
Eighth note0.5265.33.77
Eighth triplet0.333176.85.66
Dotted sixteenth0.375198.95.03
Sixteenth note0.25132.67.54
Sixteenth triplet0.16788.411.31
Thirty-second note0.12566.315.08

Half time 56.6 BPM · double time 226.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (530.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. It’s Only LoveBryan Adams with Tina TurnerF major101BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Heartache TonightEaglesC major113BPM
  2. Little ThingsBushC major113BPM
  3. RunningNo DoubtC major113BPM
  4. Dramatic ThemePink FloydC major113BPM
  5. Drink in My HandEric ChurchC major113BPM
  6. TVC 15David BowieC major113BPM
  7. Wrote a Song for EveryoneCreedence Clearwater RevivalC major113BPM
  8. HatefulThe ClashC major113BPM
  9. Walking AloneGreen DayC major113BPM
  10. MistakesAndra DayC major113BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 113 BPMC major at 110–119 BPMThe Beatles

MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 14e79bb3-ebb0-4372-9736-9230fdbaca02.