TempoPeek

Adele · 2016-07-30: SAP Center, San Jose, CA, USA

Skyfall

Skyfall is in C minor at 151 beats per minute.

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Tempo

151 BPM · Allegromedian of 186 analyses · 128–151 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
81%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
186people who ran the extractor
One beat
397.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.9dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.614Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.953Essentia'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

186 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 81% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 186 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 128 to 151 BPM.

At 151 BPM one beat lasts 397.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99.3 ms and a dotted eighth 298 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 302. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 6.9 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 0.614 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 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 151 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41589.40.63
Half note2794.71.26
Dotted quarter1.55961.68
Quarter note (one beat)1397.42.52
Quarter triplet0.667264.93.78
Dotted eighth0.752983.36
Eighth note0.5198.75.03
Eighth triplet0.333132.57.55
Dotted sixteenth0.3751496.71
Sixteenth note0.2599.310.07
Sixteenth triplet0.16766.215.1
Thirty-second note0.12549.720.13

Half time 75.5 BPM · double time 302 BPM. Every row is one beat (397.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Breakfast in AmericaSupertrampC minor151BPM
  2. A New Machine, Part 1Pink FloydC minor151BPM
  3. MustaphaQueenC minor152BPM
  4. High HopesPink FloydC minor150BPM
  5. Hanging on the TelephoneBlondieC minor152BPM
  6. Be With YouBeyoncéC minor150BPM
  7. Heat MiserMassive AttackC minor150BPM
  8. BiologicalAirC minor150BPM
  9. The Rockafeller SkankFatboy SlimC minor153BPM
  10. OverPortisheadC minor148BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 151 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 151 BPMC minor at 150–159 BPMAdele

MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id d74ce039-fb99-44fb-aa54-43bf707acf46.