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Waiting for Love
Waiting for Love is in A major at 128.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
128 BPM · Allegromedian of 229 analyses · 128–128.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 229people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 468.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.45dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.881Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.153Essentia'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
229 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 229 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 128.1 BPM one beat lasts 468.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.1 ms and a dotted eighth 351.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 256.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 2.45 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 0.881 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 128 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1873.5 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 936.8 | 1.07 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 702.6 | 1.42 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 468.4 | 2.13 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 312.3 | 3.2 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 351.3 | 2.85 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 234.2 | 4.27 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 156.1 | 6.41 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 175.6 | 5.69 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 117.1 | 8.54 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.1 | 12.81 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.5 | 17.08 |
Half time 64.1 BPM · double time 256.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (468.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- BubblyColbie CaillatA major128BPM
- Bedlam in BelgiumAC/DCA major128BPM
- The Veldt (8 minute edit)deadmau5 feat. Chris JamesA major128BPM
- If I Needed SomeoneThe BeatlesA major128BPM
- The Veldt (Tommy Trash remix)deadmau5 feat. Chris JamesA major128BPM
- Hold On Loosely.38 SpecialA major128BPM
- Say You Love MeFleetwood MacA major128BPM
- Beth/RestBon IverA major128BPM
- The One I LoveR.E.M.A major128BPM
- Listen to Her HeartTom Petty and the HeartbreakersA major128BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 128 BPMA major at 120–129 BPMAvicii
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id b40a9429-47a3-4f71-b3d8-611bf6b4b0c5.