TempoPeek

Blondie · Plastic Letters

(I’m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear

(I’m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear is in A major at 143.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

143 BPM · Allegromedian of 208 analyses · 143–143.2 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
208people who ran the extractor
One beat
419.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.84dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.924Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.154Essentia'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

208 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 208 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 143.1 BPM one beat lasts 419.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.8 ms and a dotted eighth 314.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 286.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 2.84 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 0.924 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 143 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41677.10.6
Half note2838.61.19
Dotted quarter1.5628.91.59
Quarter note (one beat)1419.32.39
Quarter triplet0.667279.53.58
Dotted eighth0.75314.53.18
Eighth note0.5209.64.77
Eighth triplet0.333139.87.16
Dotted sixteenth0.375157.26.36
Sixteenth note0.25104.89.54
Sixteenth triplet0.16769.914.31
Thirty-second note0.12552.419.08

Half time 71.6 BPM · double time 286.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (419.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Oliver’s ArmyElvis Costello & The AttractionsA major143BPM
  2. Fashion VictimGreen DayA major143BPM
  3. Four SticksLed ZeppelinA major143BPM
  4. Draw the LineAerosmithA major143BPM
  5. How Many More TimesLed ZeppelinA major143BPM
  6. QuicksilverPink FloydA major143BPM
  7. Telephone LineElectric Light OrchestraA major144BPM
  8. My ImmortalEvanescenceA major144BPM
  9. Pretty VacantSex PistolsA major144BPM
  10. SeventeenSex PistolsA major144BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 143 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 143 BPMA major at 140–149 BPMBlondie

MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id 73f5aa27-d81d-4d03-af1d-7aab842f43ef.