170–179 BPM · Vivace

Songs at 172 BPM

One beat

348.8 ms60,000 ÷ 172

Recordings: 156at this whole tempo
Half time: 86BPM
Double time: 344BPM
Most used key: —two or more keys tie

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.

156 recordings on this site sit at 172 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 348.8 milliseconds. That makes an eighth note 174.4 ms, a dotted eighth 261.6 ms and a sixteenth 87.2 ms — the delay times that will sit in time with anything at this tempo.

Half time is 86 BPM and double time is 344; a tempo detector that disagrees with this page by a factor of two is usually counting one of those instead.

No single key leads at this tempo — two or more are level, so none is named the most used.

Delay times at 172 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1395.3	0.72
Half note	2	697.7	1.43
Dotted quarter	1.5	523.3	1.91
Quarter note (one beat)	1	348.8	2.87
Quarter triplet	0.667	232.6	4.3
Dotted eighth	0.75	261.6	3.82
Eighth note	0.5	174.4	5.73
Eighth triplet	0.333	116.3	8.6
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	130.8	7.64
Sixteenth note	0.25	87.2	11.47
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	58.1	17.2
Thirty-second note	0.125	43.6	22.93

172 BPM, key by key

Each key links to its list at this tempo band (170–179 BPM) where there is one, and to the whole key otherwise.

The recordings

Every recording whose median tempo rounds to 172 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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