TempoPeek

AC/DC · For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

Snowballed

Snowballed is in A major at 152.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

152 BPM · Allegromedian of 146 analyses · 152.1–152.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
76%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
146people who ran the extractor
One beat
394.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
1.93dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.956Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.222Essentia'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

146 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 76% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 146 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 152.2 BPM one beat lasts 394.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.6 ms and a dotted eighth 295.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 304.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 1.93 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 0.956 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 152 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41576.90.63
Half note2788.41.27
Dotted quarter1.5591.31.69
Quarter note (one beat)1394.22.54
Quarter triplet0.667262.83.81
Dotted eighth0.75295.73.38
Eighth note0.5197.15.07
Eighth triplet0.333131.47.61
Dotted sixteenth0.375147.86.76
Sixteenth note0.2598.610.15
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.715.22
Thirty-second note0.12549.320.29

Half time 76.1 BPM · double time 304.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (394.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Hang FireThe Rolling StonesA major152BPM
  2. In the FleshPink FloydA major152BPM
  3. We Got the BeatGo‐Go’sA major152BPM
  4. Sgt. MajorJetA major152BPM
  5. I’m With YouAvril LavigneA major152BPM
  6. SpacemanThe KillersA major152BPM
  7. Je T'Aime EncoreCéline DionA major152BPM
  8. Suite: Judy Blue EyesCrosby, Stills & NashA major153BPM
  9. Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)Led ZeppelinA major153BPM
  10. Everything I OwnBreadA major153BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 152 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 152 BPMA major at 150–159 BPMAC/DC

MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id f979e62c-446c-4127-b29c-c60f4bcdc32a.