Bob Marley & The Wailers · Survival
So Much Trouble in the World
So Much Trouble in the World is in A minor at 155.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
155 BPM · Allegromedian of 158 analyses · 155.1–155.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 52%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 158people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 386.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.1Hz · -3.5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.15dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.697Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.256Essentia'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
158 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 52% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 158 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 155.3 BPM one beat lasts 386.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 96.6 ms and a dotted eighth 289.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 310.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.1 Hz, which is 3.5 cents below 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 5.15 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 0.697 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 minor; 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 minor
Each of these differs from A minor 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 155 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1545.4 | 0.65 |
| Half note | 2 | 772.7 | 1.29 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 579.5 | 1.73 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 386.3 | 2.59 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 257.6 | 3.88 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 289.8 | 3.45 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 193.2 | 5.18 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 128.8 | 7.77 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 144.9 | 6.9 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 96.6 | 10.35 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 64.4 | 15.53 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48.3 | 20.71 |
Half time 77.7 BPM · double time 310.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (386.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Wooden ShipsCrosby, Stills & NashA minor155BPM
- Those ShoesEaglesA minor155BPM
- Ain’t No SunshineBill WithersA minor155BPM
- SaraBob DylanA minor156BPM
- WelcomeChristina AguileraA minor155BPM
- Hey HeyEric ClaptonA minor156BPM
- Our First TimeBruno MarsA minor156BPM
- Tiny Little RobotsCage the ElephantA minor156BPM
- PromisesThriceA minor156BPM
- Can’t Keep It InCat StevensA minor156BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 155 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 155 BPMA minor at 150–159 BPMBob Marley & The Wailers
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 38d2e968-25d1-49e4-a570-9417326350d9.