TempoPeek

The Smashing Pumpkins · Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Tonight, Tonight

Tonight, Tonight is in F sharp major at 150.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

150 BPM · Allegromedian of 221 analyses · 149.3–150.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F♯ major6 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
90%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
221people who ran the extractor
One beat
399.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.58dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.862Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.95Essentia'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

221 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in F sharp major, a key signature of 6 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 221 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 150.1 BPM one beat lasts 399.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99.9 ms and a dotted eighth 299.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 300.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 3.58 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 0.862 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 F sharp 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 F♯ major

Each of these differs from F♯ 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 150 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41598.90.63
Half note2799.51.25
Dotted quarter1.5599.61.67
Quarter note (one beat)1399.72.5
Quarter triplet0.667266.53.75
Dotted eighth0.75299.83.34
Eighth note0.5199.95
Eighth triplet0.333133.27.51
Dotted sixteenth0.375149.96.67
Sixteenth note0.2599.910.01
Sixteenth triplet0.16766.615.01
Thirty-second note0.1255020.01

Half time 75.1 BPM · double time 300.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (399.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Ridetwenty one pilotsF♯ major150BPM
  2. Heartbeat SongKelly ClarksonF♯ major149BPM
  3. Legal TenderThe B‐52sF♯ major149BPM
  4. TrismThe B‐52sF♯ major152BPM
  5. Into the VoidBlack SabbathF♯ major152BPM
  6. One Love (edit)The ProdigyF♯ major148BPM
  7. Live and Let DieGuns N’ RosesF♯ major153BPM
  8. Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag)Julie Andrews and ChorusF♯ major148BPM
  9. Come On OverShania TwainF♯ major153BPM
  10. Dirty WorkSteely DanF♯ major147BPM

Recordings in F sharp major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 150 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F sharp majorAll songs at 150 BPMF♯ major at 150–159 BPMThe Smashing Pumpkins

MusicBrainz collapses 325 recording ids into this one. Recording id d07057c1-312b-4a7e-b129-dd7383539f57.