TempoPeek

AC/DC · Highway to Hell

Shot Down in Flames

Shot Down in Flames is in D major at 131.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

131 BPM · Allegromedian of 334 analyses · 131.3–131.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
334people who ran the extractor
One beat
457milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
435.7Hz · -17 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.11dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.932Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.491Essentia'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

334 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 334 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 131.3 BPM one beat lasts 457 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.2 ms and a dotted eighth 342.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 262.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.7 Hz, which is 17 cents below 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 3.11 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 0.932 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 131 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41827.90.55
Half note2913.91.09
Dotted quarter1.5685.51.46
Quarter note (one beat)14572.19
Quarter triplet0.667304.63.28
Dotted eighth0.75342.72.92
Eighth note0.5228.54.38
Eighth triplet0.333152.36.57
Dotted sixteenth0.375171.45.84
Sixteenth note0.25114.28.75
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.213.13
Thirty-second note0.12557.117.51

Half time 65.7 BPM · double time 262.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (457 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Too Much Time on My HandsStyxD major131BPM
  2. The VisitorsABBAD major131BPM
  3. Jessie’s GirlRick SpringfieldD major132BPM
  4. Even the LosersTom Petty and the HeartbreakersD major132BPM
  5. Dirty Little GirlElton JohnD major132BPM
  6. The Best One Yet (The Boy)The Black Eyed PeasD major132BPM
  7. I Think We’re Alone NowTiffanyD major131BPM
  8. Alone + Easy TargetFoo FightersD major131BPM
  9. William, It Was Really NothingThe SmithsD major131BPM
  10. Up Around the BendCreedence Clearwater RevisitedD major130BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 131 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMAC/DC

MusicBrainz collapses 120 recording ids into this one. Recording id bf80d304-2c72-4352-9ced-3aaed8632346.