TempoPeek

The Clash · London Calling

Brand New Cadillac

Brand New Cadillac is in A major at 150.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

151 BPM · Allegromedian of 254 analyses · 150.6–151.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
70%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
254people who ran the extractor
One beat
398.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.68dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.937Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.156Essentia'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

254 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 70% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 254 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 150.6 to 151.7 BPM.

At 150.6 BPM one beat lasts 398.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99.6 ms and a dotted eighth 298.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 301.2. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.68 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 0.937 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 151 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41593.60.63
Half note2796.81.25
Dotted quarter1.5597.61.67
Quarter note (one beat)1398.42.51
Quarter triplet0.667265.63.77
Dotted eighth0.75298.83.35
Eighth note0.5199.25.02
Eighth triplet0.333132.87.53
Dotted sixteenth0.375149.46.69
Sixteenth note0.2599.610.04
Sixteenth triplet0.16766.415.06
Thirty-second note0.12549.820.08

Half time 75.3 BPM · double time 301.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (398.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Southern AccentsJohnny CashA major151BPM
  2. Wrong WaySublimeA major151BPM
  3. Love’s HolidayEarth, Wind & FireA major151BPM
  4. No RainBlind MelonA major150BPM
  5. PapercutLinkin ParkA major150BPM
  6. Done Too SoonNeil DiamondA major151BPM
  7. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely TonightJames TaylorA major151BPM
  8. Message in a BottleThe PoliceA major151BPM
  9. Just Like HeavenThe CureA major151BPM
  10. LolaThe KinksA major152BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 151 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 151 BPMA major at 150–159 BPMThe Clash

MusicBrainz collapses 40 recording ids into this one. Recording id b65f155c-2d57-48fc-8a0e-ceca51bb5d7d.