TempoPeek

U2 · Achtung Baby

Acrobat

Acrobat is in D minor at 100.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

100 BPM · Andantemedian of 180 analyses · 100.4–100.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
57%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
180people who ran the extractor
One beat
597.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.02dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.89Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.04Essentia'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

180 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 57% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 180 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 100.4 BPM one beat lasts 597.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 149.4 ms and a dotted eighth 448.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 200.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 cents below 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 3.02 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 0.89 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 D minor; 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D minor 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 100 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42390.40.42
Half note21195.20.84
Dotted quarter1.5896.41.12
Quarter note (one beat)1597.61.67
Quarter triplet0.667398.42.51
Dotted eighth0.75448.22.23
Eighth note0.5298.83.35
Eighth triplet0.333199.25.02
Dotted sixteenth0.375224.14.46
Sixteenth note0.25149.46.69
Sixteenth triplet0.16799.610.04
Thirty-second note0.12574.713.39

Half time 50.2 BPM · double time 200.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (597.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Sweet EmotionAerosmithD minor101BPM
  2. Lay Your Hands on MeBon JoviD minor101BPM
  3. H.ToolD minor100BPM
  4. Me and My FriendsThe Red Hot Chili PeppersD minor100BPM
  5. Song of the CenturyGreen DayD minor101BPM
  6. Nobody Weird Like MeRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor101BPM
  7. FiresideArctic MonkeysD minor100BPM
  8. Something About UsDaft PunkD minor100BPM
  9. Something About Us (Love Theme From Interstella 5555)Daft PunkD minor100BPM
  10. Mr Self DestructNine Inch NailsD minor100BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 100 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 100 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMU2

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 78ad38f1-4e06-409d-8d1b-74b82b01502c.