TempoPeek

U2 · The Joshua Tree

Running to Stand Still

Running to Stand Still is in D major at 94.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

94 BPM · Andantemedian of 206 analyses · 93.9–94.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
81%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
206people who ran the extractor
One beat
636.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.1Hz · +16 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.47dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.077Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.05Essentia'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

206 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 81% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 206 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 94.2 BPM one beat lasts 636.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 159.2 ms and a dotted eighth 477.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 188.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.1 Hz, which is 16 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 7.47 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 0.077 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 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 94 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42547.80.39
Half note21273.90.78
Dotted quarter1.5955.41.05
Quarter note (one beat)1636.91.57
Quarter triplet0.667424.62.36
Dotted eighth0.75477.72.09
Eighth note0.5318.53.14
Eighth triplet0.333212.34.71
Dotted sixteenth0.375238.94.19
Sixteenth note0.25159.26.28
Sixteenth triplet0.167106.29.42
Thirty-second note0.12579.612.56

Half time 47.1 BPM · double time 188.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (636.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Midnight RiderThe Allman Brothers BandD major95BPM
  2. VulturesMeat PuppetsD major94BPM
  3. The Right TimeThe CorrsD major94BPM
  4. Social DiseaseElton JohnD major95BPM
  5. All Tomorrow’s PartiesThe Velvet Underground & NicoD major94BPM
  6. AppletreeErykah BaduD major95BPM
  7. Rising PowerAC/DCD major94BPM
  8. The RiverAURORAD major95BPM
  9. Ode to My FamilyThe CranberriesD major95BPM
  10. Hide AwayDayaD major95BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 94 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 94 BPMD major at 90–99 BPMU2

MusicBrainz collapses 298 recording ids into this one. Recording id 88ad5e5e-521e-499f-9201-4114d7feb6c4.