120–129 BPM · Allegro

Songs at 120 BPM

One beat

500 ms60,000 ÷ 120

Recordings: 227at this whole tempo
Half time: 60BPM
Double time: 240BPM
Most used key: C major23 recordings

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.

227 recordings on this site sit at 120 beats per minute once each one's analyses are reduced to their median. A score would call that Allegro, by the ranges printed on the data page.

One beat lasts 500 milliseconds. That makes an eighth note 250 ms, a dotted eighth 375 ms and a sixteenth 125 ms — the delay times that will sit in time with anything at this tempo.

Half time is 60 BPM and double time is 240; a tempo detector that disagrees with this page by a factor of two is usually counting one of those instead.

23 of them are in C major, more than any other key at this tempo.

Delay times at 120 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	2000	0.5
Half note	2	1000	1
Dotted quarter	1.5	750	1.33
Quarter note (one beat)	1	500	2
Quarter triplet	0.667	333.3	3
Dotted eighth	0.75	375	2.67
Eighth note	0.5	250	4
Eighth triplet	0.333	166.7	6
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	187.5	5.33
Sixteenth note	0.25	125	8
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	83.3	12
Thirty-second note	0.125	62.5	16

120 BPM, key by key

Each key links to its list at this tempo band (120–129 BPM) where there is one, and to the whole key otherwise.

The recordings

Every recording whose median tempo rounds to 120 BPM, most analysed first. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

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