Backstreet Boys · Unbreakable
You Can Let Go
You Can Let Go is in B major at 146 beats per minute.
Tempo
146 BPM · Allegromedian of 152 analyses · 145.9–146 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 152people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 411milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.69dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.77Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.979Essentia'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
152 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 152 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 146 BPM one beat lasts 411 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.7 ms and a dotted eighth 308.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73 BPM, counted twice as fast 292. 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 3.69 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 0.77 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 B 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 B major
Each of these differs from B 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 146 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1643.8 | 0.61 |
| Half note | 2 | 821.9 | 1.22 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 616.4 | 1.62 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 411 | 2.43 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 274 | 3.65 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 308.2 | 3.24 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 205.5 | 4.87 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 137 | 7.3 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 154.1 | 6.49 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 102.7 | 9.73 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 68.5 | 14.6 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51.4 | 19.47 |
Half time 73 BPM · double time 292 BPM. Every row is one beat (411 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Gone Too SoonMichael JacksonB major145BPM
- How to Draw / PetrichorThe 1975B major148BPM
- London’s BurningThe ClashB major148BPM
- I Don’t Like MondaysThe Boomtown RatsB major144BPM
- I Remember YouRamonesB major144BPM
- Spiral ArchitectBlack SabbathB major143BPM
- Dead on TimeQueenB major143BPM
- Dancing in the DarkBruce SpringsteenB major149BPM
- Swallowed in the SeaColdplayB major142BPM
- Flora’s SecretEnyaB major142BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 146 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 146 BPMB major at 140–149 BPMBackstreet Boys
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 2b5340b7-148b-4884-815f-122ed3ecdbd4.