TempoPeek

The Supremes · The Supremes A’ Go-Go

You Can’t Hurry Love

You Can’t Hurry Love is in B flat major at 96.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

97 BPM · Andantemedian of 227 analyses · 95.9–97.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
88%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
227people who ran the extractor
One beat
619.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.8Hz · +15 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.73dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.942Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.277Essentia'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

227 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 88% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 227 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 95.9 to 97.5 BPM.

At 96.9 BPM one beat lasts 619.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 154.8 ms and a dotted eighth 464.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 193.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.8 Hz, which is 15 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 3.73 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 0.942 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 flat 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 B♭ major

Each of these differs from B♭ 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 97 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42476.80.4
Half note21238.40.81
Dotted quarter1.5928.81.08
Quarter note (one beat)1619.21.62
Quarter triplet0.667412.82.42
Dotted eighth0.75464.42.15
Eighth note0.5309.63.23
Eighth triplet0.333206.44.85
Dotted sixteenth0.375232.24.31
Sixteenth note0.25154.86.46
Sixteenth triplet0.167103.29.69
Thirty-second note0.12577.412.92

Half time 48.5 BPM · double time 193.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (619.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. You Can’t Hurry LovePhil CollinsG major98BPM

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. Bab’s Uvula Who?Green DayB♭ major97BPM
  2. Love MeThe 1975B♭ major97BPM
  3. Come DownShotgun MessiahB♭ major97BPM
  4. Under the InfluenceEminem featuring D‐12B♭ major97BPM
  5. Disco Inferno50 CentB♭ major97BPM
  6. Lil’ Homies2PacB♭ major98BPM
  7. That’s the Way Love GoesJanetB♭ major98BPM
  8. I Get Around2PacB♭ major96BPM
  9. Blank SpaceTaylor SwiftB♭ major96BPM
  10. PushMadonnaB♭ major96BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 97 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 97 BPMB♭ major at 90–99 BPMThe Supremes

MusicBrainz collapses 79 recording ids into this one. Recording id adc3b7d9-8411-497b-8b29-b099407c5498.