Blondie · Parallel Lines
Just Go Away
Just Go Away is in B major at 138.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
139 BPM · Allegromedian of 225 analyses · 138.3–163.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 83%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 225people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 432.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.51dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.884Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.247Essentia'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
225 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 225 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 138.3 to 163.1 BPM.
At 138.6 BPM one beat lasts 432.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 108.2 ms and a dotted eighth 324.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 69.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 277.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 cents below 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 3.51 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 0.884 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 139 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1731.6 | 0.58 |
| Half note | 2 | 865.8 | 1.16 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 649.4 | 1.54 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 432.9 | 2.31 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 288.6 | 3.47 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 324.7 | 3.08 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 216.5 | 4.62 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 144.3 | 6.93 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 162.3 | 6.16 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 108.2 | 9.24 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 72.2 | 13.86 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.1 | 18.48 |
Half time 69.3 BPM · double time 277.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (432.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Kings HorsesJetB major139BPM
- DesnudoEnrique IglesiasB major139BPM
- I Don’t Want to KnowFleetwood MacB major140BPM
- One of These DaysPink FloydB major137BPM
- ExitludeThe KillersB major137BPM
- Sysyphus, Part 4Richard WrightB major140BPM
- Out ta Get MeGuns N’ RosesB major141BPM
- NutshellAlice in ChainsB major137BPM
- I Drove All NightCéline DionB major135BPM
- Swallowed in the SeaColdplayB major142BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 139 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 139 BPMB major at 130–139 BPMBlondie
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id ccd11b0f-d98c-4381-a5e1-75531be31daf.