ABBA · The Visitors
Head Over Heels
Head Over Heels is in C sharp minor at 121.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
122 BPM · Allegromedian of 227 analyses · 121.4–121.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 227people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 493.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.74dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.92Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.394Essentia'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
227 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 227 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 121.5 BPM one beat lasts 493.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 123.5 ms and a dotted eighth 370.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 243. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 3.74 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 0.92 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 C sharp minor; 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 C♯ minor
Each of these differs from C♯ minor 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 122 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1975.3 | 0.51 |
| Half note | 2 | 987.7 | 1.01 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 740.7 | 1.35 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 493.8 | 2.03 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 329.2 | 3.04 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 370.4 | 2.7 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 246.9 | 4.05 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 164.6 | 6.08 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 185.2 | 5.4 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 123.5 | 8.1 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.3 | 12.15 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 61.7 | 16.2 |
Half time 60.8 BPM · double time 243 BPM. Every row is one beat (493.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Groove Is in the HeartDeee‐LiteC♯ minor122BPM
- Harlem ShuffleThe Rolling StonesC♯ minor122BPM
- Out of My HeadThe Black Eyed PeasC♯ minor121BPM
- Rain When I DieAlice in ChainsC♯ minor121BPM
- All I’ve Got to DoThe BeatlesC♯ minor120BPM
- MapsMaroon 5C♯ minor120BPM
- Till It Happens to YouCorinne Bailey RaeC♯ minor120BPM
- The BrainwasherDaft PunkC♯ minor120BPM
- ArrivalDaft PunkC♯ minor120BPM
- It’s a MiracleCulture ClubC♯ minor119BPM
Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 122 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 122 BPMC♯ minor at 120–129 BPMABBA
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 81396030-d7f7-40d8-b33d-46bafec93246.