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Ain’t No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire)
Ain’t No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire) is in D major at 142.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
142 BPM · Allegromedian of 140 analyses · 141.9–142.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 140people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 421.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.32dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.896Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.368Essentia'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
140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 142.3 BPM one beat lasts 421.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.4 ms and a dotted eighth 316.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 284.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below 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 3.32 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 0.896 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 142 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1686.6 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 843.3 | 1.19 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 632.5 | 1.58 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 421.6 | 2.37 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 281.1 | 3.56 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 316.2 | 3.16 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 210.8 | 4.74 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 140.5 | 7.12 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 158.1 | 6.32 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 105.4 | 9.49 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 70.3 | 14.23 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.7 | 18.97 |
Half time 71.2 BPM · double time 284.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (421.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Sweet Baby JamesJames TaylorD major142BPM
- Ozone BabyLed ZeppelinD major142BPM
- Back in the U.S.S.R.The BeatlesD major143BPM
- In Between DaysThe CureD major143BPM
- If Walls Could TalkCéline DionD major142BPM
- I’ll Make Love to YouBoyz II MenD major143BPM
- Roll On Down the HighwayBachman–Turner OverdriveD major142BPM
- Embryonic JourneyJefferson AirplaneD major143BPM
- Alone, TogetherThe StrokesD major143BPM
- LuanneForeignerD major141BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 142 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 142 BPMD major at 140–149 BPMAC/DC
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 926b2c29-2338-405e-a0df-72ec8e614652.