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Cherry Bomb
Cherry Bomb is in B minor at 136.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 147 analyses · 136.3–136.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 48%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 439.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.29dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.955Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.135Essentia'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
147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 48% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 136.4 BPM one beat lasts 439.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110 ms and a dotted eighth 329.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 272.8. 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 2.29 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 0.955 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 minor; 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 minor
Each of these differs from B minor 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1759.5 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 879.8 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 659.8 | 1.52 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 439.9 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 293.3 | 3.41 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 329.9 | 3.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 219.9 | 4.55 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.6 | 6.82 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165 | 6.06 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110 | 9.09 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.3 | 13.64 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55 | 18.19 |
Half time 68.2 BPM · double time 272.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (439.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Punky Reggae PartyBob Marley & The WailersB minor135BPM
- Dollars and CentsRadioheadB minor139BPM
- Gangnam Style (강남스타일)PSYB minor132BPM
- We’re Going WrongCreamB minor132BPM
- No Money No LoveDavid Guetta & Showtek feat. Elliphant & Ms. DynamiteB minor132BPM
- Lucifer SamPink FloydB minor141BPM
- Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)Arcade FireB minor131BPM
- A Saucerful of SecretsPink FloydB minor130BPM
- Let It Will BeMadonnaB minor130BPM
- Horse LatitudesThe DoorsB minor130BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 136 BPMB minor at 130–139 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id d8cb3068-578e-4323-82d1-8b6248a9b8b5.