Bon Jovi · Slippery When Wet

Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye is in A major at 136 beats per minute.

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Tempo

136 BPM · Allegromedian of 275 analyses · 135.9–136.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
52%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
275people who ran the extractor
One beat
441.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.84dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.877Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.217Essentia'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

275 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 52% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 275 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 136 BPM one beat lasts 441.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.3 ms and a dotted eighth 330.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68 BPM, counted twice as fast 272. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 0.877 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 136 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41764.70.57
Half note2882.41.13
Dotted quarter1.5661.81.51
Quarter note (one beat)1441.22.27
Quarter triplet0.667294.13.4
Dotted eighth0.75330.93.02
Eighth note0.5220.64.53
Eighth triplet0.333147.16.8
Dotted sixteenth0.375165.46.04
Sixteenth note0.25110.39.07
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.513.6
Thirty-second note0.12555.118.13

Half time 68 BPM · double time 272 BPM. Every row is one beat (441.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Smack My Bitch UpProdigyA major136BPM
  2. It’s So EasyThe Crickets feat. Buddy HollyA major136BPM
  3. RadioactiveImagine DragonsA major136BPM
  4. (I Can’t Get No) SatisfactionThe Rolling StonesA major136BPM
  5. Everything’s Not Lost / Life Is for LivingColdplayA major136BPM
  6. I’m Not DownThe ClashA major136BPM
  7. SatisfactionThe Rolling StonesA major137BPM
  8. All the MadmenDavid BowieA major136BPM
  9. AtomicBlondieA major137BPM
  10. Simple LessonsCandleboxA major137BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 136 BPMA major at 130–139 BPMBon Jovi

MusicBrainz collapses 30 recording ids into this one. Recording id 01a79e0a-bb36-4353-ae0b-c18c17158693.