Arcade Fire · Neon Bible
(Antichrist Television Blues)
(Antichrist Television Blues) is in C major at 156.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
157 BPM · Vivacemedian of 143 analyses · 156.5–156.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 88%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 143people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 383.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.43dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.853Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.005Essentia'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
143 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 88% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 143 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 156.5 BPM one beat lasts 383.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 95.8 ms and a dotted eighth 287.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 78.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 313. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above 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 3.43 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 0.853 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 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 157 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1533.5 | 0.65 |
| Half note | 2 | 766.8 | 1.3 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 575.1 | 1.74 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 383.4 | 2.61 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 255.6 | 3.91 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 287.5 | 3.48 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 191.7 | 5.22 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 127.8 | 7.83 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 143.8 | 6.96 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 95.8 | 10.43 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 63.9 | 15.65 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 47.9 | 20.87 |
Half time 78.3 BPM · double time 313 BPM. Every row is one beat (383.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- She’s a RebelGreen DayC major157BPM
- Waiting in VainBob Marley & The WailersC major156BPM
- CarolChuck BerryC major156BPM
- La BambaLos LobosC major156BPM
- No Woman, No CryBob Marley & The WailersC major156BPM
- Play the GameQueenC major155BPM
- Jet Pack BluesFall Out BoyC major155BPM
- Show MeBruno MarsC major155BPM
- Bringin’ On the HeartbreakDef LeppardC major155BPM
- ChangeLana Del ReyC major155BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 157 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 157 BPMC major at 150–159 BPMArcade Fire
MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id c2b96d76-ae2b-4190-9c8d-aec4359b04cf.