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.

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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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41753.10.57
Half note2876.61.14
Dotted quarter1.5657.41.52
Quarter note (one beat)1438.32.28
Quarter triplet0.667292.23.42
Dotted eighth0.75328.73.04
Eighth note0.5219.14.56
Eighth triplet0.333146.16.85
Dotted sixteenth0.375164.46.08
Sixteenth note0.25109.69.13
Sixteenth triplet0.1677313.69
Thirty-second note0.12554.818.25

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

  1. Will You Love Me Tomorrow?Carole KingC major162BPM

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. Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on MeElton JohnC major137BPM
  2. Knives OutRadioheadC major137BPM
  3. Take It AllAdeleC major137BPM
  4. She BopCyndi LauperC major137BPM
  5. From Me to YouThe BeatlesC major137BPM
  6. See SawAretha FranklinC major136BPM
  7. Material GirlMadonnaC major136BPM
  8. Sugar DumplingSam CookeC major137BPM
  9. MinorityGreen DayC major138BPM
  10. 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.