TempoPeek

Van Halen · Van Halen

You Really Got Me

You Really Got Me is in A flat major at 138.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

139 BPM · Allegromedian of 191 analyses · 138.6–139.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
72%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
191people who ran the extractor
One beat
432milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
446.4Hz · +25 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.42dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.916Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.072Essentia'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

191 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 72% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 191 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 138.9 BPM one beat lasts 432 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 108 ms and a dotted eighth 324 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 69.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 277.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.4 Hz, which is 25 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 3.42 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 0.916 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 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 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 139 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41727.90.58
Half note2863.91.16
Dotted quarter1.5647.91.54
Quarter note (one beat)14322.32
Quarter triplet0.6672883.47
Dotted eighth0.753243.09
Eighth note0.52164.63
Eighth triplet0.3331446.95
Dotted sixteenth0.3751626.17
Sixteenth note0.251089.26
Sixteenth triplet0.1677213.89
Thirty-second note0.1255418.52

Half time 69.5 BPM · double time 277.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (432 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Carry OnCrosby, Stills, Nash & YoungA♭ major139BPM
  2. Don’t Let Him Steal Your Heart AwayPhil CollinsA♭ major139BPM
  3. Just Like Jesse JamesCherA♭ major140BPM
  4. Say My NameDestiny’s ChildA♭ major138BPM
  5. Because of YouKelly ClarksonA♭ major140BPM
  6. Wildest DreamsTaylor SwiftA♭ major140BPM
  7. The Power of LoveCéline DionA♭ major140BPM
  8. Ayo Technology50 Cent feat. Justin Timberlake & TimbalandA♭ major140BPM
  9. WaitingGreen DayA♭ major137BPM
  10. See the LightGreen DayA♭ major141BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 139 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 139 BPMA♭ major at 130–139 BPMVan Halen

MusicBrainz collapses 70 recording ids into this one. Recording id 769e0ca1-f2eb-48df-a302-899a2826a7e9.