Wings · London Town
Mull of Kintyre
Mull of Kintyre is in D major at 92 beats per minute.
Tempo
92 BPM · Andantemedian of 146 analyses · 92–92.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 146people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 652.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 444.1Hz · +16 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.99dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.862Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.019Essentia'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
146 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 146 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 92 BPM one beat lasts 652.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 163 ms and a dotted eighth 489.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46 BPM, counted twice as fast 184. 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 2.99 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 0.862 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 92 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2608.7 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1304.3 | 0.77 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 978.3 | 1.02 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 652.2 | 1.53 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 434.8 | 2.3 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 489.1 | 2.04 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 326.1 | 3.07 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 217.4 | 4.6 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 244.6 | 4.09 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 163 | 6.13 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 108.7 | 9.2 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 81.5 | 12.27 |
Half time 46 BPM · double time 184 BPM. Every row is one beat (652.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- EmotionBee GeesD major92BPM
- Back to Your HeartBackstreet BoysD major92BPM
- Up the Hill BackwardsDavid BowieD major92BPM
- Panic in DetroitDavid BowieD major93BPM
- BadfishSublimeD major93BPM
- All My LoveLed ZeppelinD major91BPM
- Are You Ready for the Country?Neil YoungD major91BPM
- Rock and Roll Is DeadLenny KravitzD major93BPM
- Roll Over BeethovenChuck BerryD major93BPM
- Blood and ThunderMastodonD major93BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 92 BPMD major at 90–99 BPMWings
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id 80effee3-06bf-4ea2-b4c3-296428df7415.