TempoPeek

The Boomtown Rats · The Fine Art of Surfacing

I Don’t Like Mondays

I Don’t Like Mondays is in B major at 144 beats per minute.

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Tempo

144 BPM · Allegromedian of 161 analyses · 143.8–144.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
161people who ran the extractor
One beat
416.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.58dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.515Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.093Essentia'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

161 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 161 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 144 BPM one beat lasts 416.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.2 ms and a dotted eighth 312.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72 BPM, counted twice as fast 288. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below 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 4.58 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 0.515 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 144 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41666.70.6
Half note2833.31.2
Dotted quarter1.56251.6
Quarter note (one beat)1416.72.4
Quarter triplet0.667277.83.6
Dotted eighth0.75312.53.2
Eighth note0.5208.34.8
Eighth triplet0.333138.97.2
Dotted sixteenth0.375156.36.4
Sixteenth note0.25104.29.6
Sixteenth triplet0.16769.414.4
Thirty-second note0.12552.119.2

Half time 72 BPM · double time 288 BPM. Every row is one beat (416.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Remember YouRamonesB major144BPM
  2. Spiral ArchitectBlack SabbathB major143BPM
  3. Dead on TimeQueenB major143BPM
  4. Gone Too SoonMichael JacksonB major145BPM
  5. Swallowed in the SeaColdplayB major142BPM
  6. Flora’s SecretEnyaB major142BPM
  7. You Can Let GoBackstreet BoysB major146BPM
  8. Out ta Get MeGuns N’ RosesB major141BPM
  9. Sysyphus, Part 4Richard WrightB major140BPM
  10. How to Draw / PetrichorThe 1975B major148BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 144 BPMB major at 140–149 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 48 recording ids into this one. Recording id bea7e9bf-bebe-4c5a-bc0a-12fcab2ac17e.