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Let’s Spend the Night Together

Let’s Spend the Night Together is in G major at 141.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

141 BPM · Allegromedian of 187 analyses · 140–154.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
187people who ran the extractor
One beat
425.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.74dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.93Essentia'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

187 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 187 readings; 83% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 140 to 154.6 BPM.

At 141.1 BPM one beat lasts 425.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.3 ms and a dotted eighth 318.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 282.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 cents above 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 2.74 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 0.93 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 141 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41700.90.59
Half note2850.51.18
Dotted quarter1.5637.81.57
Quarter note (one beat)1425.22.35
Quarter triplet0.667283.53.53
Dotted eighth0.75318.93.14
Eighth note0.5212.64.7
Eighth triplet0.333141.77.06
Dotted sixteenth0.375159.56.27
Sixteenth note0.25106.39.41
Sixteenth triplet0.16770.914.11
Thirty-second note0.12553.218.81

Half time 70.6 BPM · double time 282.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (425.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Let’s Spend the Night TogetherDavid BowieA major164BPM

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. (What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and UnderstandingElvis Costello & The AttractionsG major141BPM
  2. SuperheroesDaft PunkG major141BPM
  3. ShamelessBilly JoelG major141BPM
  4. Wooly BullySam the Sham & the PharaohsG major140BPM
  5. All Down the LineThe Rolling StonesG major140BPM
  6. 505Arctic MonkeysG major140BPM
  7. Walk AwayBen HarperG major140BPM
  8. DianaPaul AnkaG major140BPM
  9. When You're GoneAvril LavigneG major142BPM
  10. Tiny KingdomMeat PuppetsG major140BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 141 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 141 BPMG major at 140–149 BPMThe Rolling Stones

MusicBrainz collapses 356 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2ab7e3ce-dfd5-41dd-bf8d-4403f9ce8d8a.