TempoPeek

Tommy James & the Shondells · Mony, Mony

Mony, Mony

Mony, Mony is in A major at 130 beats per minute.

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Tempo

130 BPM · Allegromedian of 145 analyses · 130–130.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
80%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
145people who ran the extractor
One beat
461.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.3Hz · +13 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.43dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.886Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.107Essentia'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

145 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 80% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 145 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 130 BPM one beat lasts 461.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.4 ms and a dotted eighth 346.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65 BPM, counted twice as fast 260. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.3 Hz, which is 13 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 4.43 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 0.886 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 130 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41846.20.54
Half note2923.11.08
Dotted quarter1.5692.31.44
Quarter note (one beat)1461.52.17
Quarter triplet0.667307.73.25
Dotted eighth0.75346.22.89
Eighth note0.5230.84.33
Eighth triplet0.333153.86.5
Dotted sixteenth0.375173.15.78
Sixteenth note0.25115.48.67
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.913
Thirty-second note0.12557.717.33

Half time 65 BPM · double time 260 BPM. Every row is one beat (461.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Mony MonyBilly IdolF minor135BPM

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. FlamingPink FloydA major130BPM
  2. I Promise You (With Everything I Am)Backstreet BoysA major130BPM
  3. A Kind of MagicQueenA major130BPM
  4. Stay With MeThriceA major130BPM
  5. Life in TechnicolorColdplayA major130BPM
  6. There’s the GirlHeartA major130BPM
  7. HeartlessHeartA major130BPM
  8. Green EyesColdplayA major130BPM
  9. Here Comes the SunThe BeatlesA major129BPM
  10. Look Back in AngerDavid BowieA major129BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 130 BPMA major at 130–139 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 92 recording ids into this one. Recording id 327056ae-6512-4a04-bc2b-fd2547571df4.