U2 · Achtung Baby
One
One is in F major at 90.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
91 BPM · Andantemedian of 329 analyses · 90.6–90.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 329people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 662.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.16dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.828Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.09Essentia'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
329 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 329 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 90.6 BPM one beat lasts 662.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 165.6 ms and a dotted eighth 496.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 181.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.16 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 0.828 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 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 91 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2649 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1324.5 | 0.75 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 993.4 | 1.01 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 662.3 | 1.51 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 441.5 | 2.27 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 496.7 | 2.01 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 331.1 | 3.02 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 220.8 | 4.53 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 248.3 | 4.03 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 165.6 | 6.04 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 110.4 | 9.06 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 82.8 | 12.08 |
Half time 45.3 BPM · double time 181.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (662.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- AncestorsBjörkF major90BPM
- Strangers in the NightFrank SinatraF major91BPM
- NightcallKavinsky & LovefoxxxF major91BPM
- Climbing the WallsBackstreet BoysF major91BPM
- Big RiverJohnny Cash and The Tennessee TwoF major91BPM
- LightersBad Meets Evil featuring Bruno MarsF major90BPM
- They Don’t Care About UsMichael JacksonF major90BPM
- I Don’t KnowCéline DionF major90BPM
- GraceU2F major90BPM
- Goblink‐182F major91BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 91 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 91 BPMF major at 90–99 BPMU2
MusicBrainz collapses 288 recording ids into this one. Recording id 44135d7f-f5d6-4ef9-8518-ed11f5b705e7.