TempoPeek

Billy Joel · Glass Houses

It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me

It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me is in F major at 140.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

141 BPM · Allegromedian of 250 analyses · 140.8–140.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
250people who ran the extractor
One beat
425.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.3Hz · +13 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.45dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.883Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.511Essentia'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

250 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 250 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 140.9 BPM one beat lasts 425.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.5 ms and a dotted eighth 319.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 281.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.3 Hz, which is 13 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 5.45 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 0.883 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 F 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 141 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41703.30.59
Half note2851.71.17
Dotted quarter1.5638.81.57
Quarter note (one beat)1425.82.35
Quarter triplet0.667283.93.52
Dotted eighth0.75319.43.13
Eighth note0.5212.94.7
Eighth triplet0.333141.97.05
Dotted sixteenth0.375159.76.26
Sixteenth note0.25106.59.39
Sixteenth triplet0.1677114.09
Thirty-second note0.12553.218.79

Half time 70.5 BPM · double time 281.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (425.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Honey, HoneyABBAF major141BPM
  2. TutuMiles DavisF major141BPM
  3. Thunder RoadBruce SpringsteenF major140BPM
  4. UnmistakableBackstreet BoysF major140BPM
  5. Real LoveCutty Ranks feat. Beres HammondF major142BPM
  6. Another Saturday NightCat StevensF major140BPM
  7. A Hazy Shade of WinterSimon & GarfunkelF major142BPM
  8. Ship to WreckFlorence + the MachineF major142BPM
  9. The (After) Life of the PartyFall Out BoyF major142BPM
  10. Blinded by the LightManfred Mann’s Earth BandF major142BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 141 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 141 BPMF major at 140–149 BPMBilly Joel

MusicBrainz collapses 21 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7eb9d210-ebbd-4aad-8b0a-5b3b6e182564.