The Shirelles · Tonight's the Night
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Will You Love Me Tomorrow is in C major at 136.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
137 BPM · Allegromedian of 201 analyses · 135.8–138.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 201people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 438.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 445.6Hz · +22 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.38dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.784Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.016Essentia'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
201 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 201 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 135.8 to 138.5 BPM.
At 136.9 BPM one beat lasts 438.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 109.6 ms and a dotted eighth 328.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 273.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.6 Hz, which is 22 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 4.38 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 0.784 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 137 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1753.1 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 876.6 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 657.4 | 1.52 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 438.3 | 2.28 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 292.2 | 3.42 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 328.7 | 3.04 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 219.1 | 4.56 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.1 | 6.85 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 164.4 | 6.08 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 109.6 | 9.13 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73 | 13.69 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.8 | 18.25 |
Half time 68.5 BPM · double time 273.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (438.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on MeElton JohnC major137BPM
- Knives OutRadioheadC major137BPM
- Take It AllAdeleC major137BPM
- She BopCyndi LauperC major137BPM
- From Me to YouThe BeatlesC major137BPM
- See SawAretha FranklinC major136BPM
- Material GirlMadonnaC major136BPM
- Sugar DumplingSam CookeC major137BPM
- MinorityGreen DayC major138BPM
- SatelliteCollective SoulC major136BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 137 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 137 BPMC major at 130–139 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 149 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0ca12a54-b5b1-4029-b4eb-4824eb210845.