150–159 BPM · Vivace

Songs at 156 BPM

One beat

384.6 ms60,000 ÷ 156

Recordings: 73at this whole tempo
Half time: 78BPM
Double time: 312BPM
Most used key: F major8 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.

73 recordings on this site sit at 156 beats per minute once each one's analyses are reduced to their median. A score would call that Vivace, by the ranges printed on the data page.

One beat lasts 384.6 milliseconds. That makes an eighth note 192.3 ms, a dotted eighth 288.5 ms and a sixteenth 96.2 ms — the delay times that will sit in time with anything at this tempo.

Half time is 78 BPM and double time is 312; a tempo detector that disagrees with this page by a factor of two is usually counting one of those instead.

8 of them are in F major, more than any other key at this tempo.

Delay times at 156 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1538.5	0.65
Half note	2	769.2	1.3
Dotted quarter	1.5	576.9	1.73
Quarter note (one beat)	1	384.6	2.6
Quarter triplet	0.667	256.4	3.9
Dotted eighth	0.75	288.5	3.47
Eighth note	0.5	192.3	5.2
Eighth triplet	0.333	128.2	7.8
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	144.2	6.93
Sixteenth note	0.25	96.2	10.4
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	64.1	15.6
Thirty-second note	0.125	48.1	20.8

156 BPM, key by key

Each key links to its list at this tempo band (150–159 BPM) where there is one, and to the whole key otherwise.

The recordings

Every recording whose median tempo rounds to 156 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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