The Rolling Stones · Beggars Banquet
No Expectations
No Expectations is in A major at 92.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
92 BPM · Andantemedian of 207 analyses · 89.9–93.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 61%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 207people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 650.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.5dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.817Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.035Essentia'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
207 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 61% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 207 readings; 58% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 89.9 to 93.1 BPM.
At 92.2 BPM one beat lasts 650.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 162.7 ms and a dotted eighth 488.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 184.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 4.5 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 0.817 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 92 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2603 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1301.5 | 0.77 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 976.1 | 1.02 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 650.8 | 1.54 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 433.8 | 2.3 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 488.1 | 2.05 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 325.4 | 3.07 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 216.9 | 4.61 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 244 | 4.1 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 162.7 | 6.15 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 108.5 | 9.22 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 81.3 | 12.29 |
Half time 46.1 BPM · double time 184.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (650.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Teenage LobotomyRamonesA major93BPM
- AfricaTotoA major93BPM
- Cretin HopRamonesA major93BPM
- Hurricane DrunkFlorence + the MachineA major92BPM
- I Want You to Want MeCheap TrickA major93BPM
- Little Red RoosterSam CookeA major93BPM
- AirplanesB.o.B feat. Hayley Williams of ParamoreA major93BPM
- That’s the Way It IsCéline DionA major93BPM
- You’ve Got a FriendJames TaylorA major92BPM
- Somebody Up There Likes MeDavid BowieA major93BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 92 BPMA major at 90–99 BPMThe Rolling Stones
MusicBrainz collapses 83 recording ids into this one. Recording id e6720a37-9c31-4cca-93ad-ea7ff6a62517.