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Chiquitita
Chiquitita is in A major at 166 beats per minute.
Tempo
166 BPM · Vivacemedian of 405 analyses · 83.7–166.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 405people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 361.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.88dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.342Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.02Essentia'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
405 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 405 readings; 72% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 83.7 to 166.2 BPM.
At 166 BPM one beat lasts 361.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.4 ms and a dotted eighth 271.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 83 BPM, counted twice as fast 332. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 6.88 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 0.342 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 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 166 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1445.8 | 0.69 |
| Half note | 2 | 722.9 | 1.38 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 542.2 | 1.84 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 361.4 | 2.77 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 241 | 4.15 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 271.1 | 3.69 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 180.7 | 5.53 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 120.5 | 8.3 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 135.5 | 7.38 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 90.4 | 11.07 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.2 | 16.6 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.2 | 22.13 |
Half time 83 BPM · double time 332 BPM. Every row is one beat (361.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Rock and Roll MusicThe BeatlesA major166BPM
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- Magical Mystery TourThe BeatlesA major166BPM
- Wicked WorldBlack SabbathA major165BPM
- Nervous ShakedownAC/DCA major165BPM
- I’ve Got a FeelingThe BeatlesA major165BPM
- Holy SmokeIron MaidenA major165BPM
- DeepPearl JamA major165BPM
- What Is and What Should Never BeLed ZeppelinA major165BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 166 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 166 BPMA major at 160–169 BPMABBA
MusicBrainz collapses 30 recording ids into this one. Recording id cf9053d1-d116-407e-a989-1f30abd6702c.