Bronski Beat · The Age of Consent

Smalltown Boy

Smalltown Boy is in F minor at 134.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

135 BPM · Allegromedian of 174 analyses · 134.4–134.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
54%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
174people who ran the extractor
One beat
445.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.01dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.819Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.115Essentia'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

174 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 54% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 174 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 134.6 BPM one beat lasts 445.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.4 ms and a dotted eighth 334.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 269.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 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 4.01 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 0.819 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 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 F minor

Each of these differs from F 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 135 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41783.10.56
Half note2891.51.12
Dotted quarter1.5668.61.5
Quarter note (one beat)1445.82.24
Quarter triplet0.667297.23.37
Dotted eighth0.75334.32.99
Eighth note0.5222.94.49
Eighth triplet0.333148.66.73
Dotted sixteenth0.375167.25.98
Sixteenth note0.25111.48.97
Sixteenth triplet0.16774.313.46
Thirty-second note0.12555.717.95

Half time 67.3 BPM · double time 269.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (445.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Mony MonyBilly IdolF minor135BPM
  2. IntroGorillazF minor134BPM
  3. I Like ItCardi B, Bad Bunny & J BalvinF minor136BPM
  4. IntroChromeoF minor133BPM
  5. Something’s Got to GiveBeastie BoysF minor137BPM
  6. CherrycoJohn Coltrane & Don CherryF minor137BPM
  7. Flawless RemixBeyoncé featuring Nicki MinajF minor137BPM
  8. PersuasionSantanaF minor132BPM
  9. Queen BitchDavid BowieF minor137BPM
  10. ***FlawlessBeyoncé featuring Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieF minor137BPM

Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F minorAll songs at 135 BPMF minor at 130–139 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 87 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6333bcb0-375a-4d6a-b657-3616015453ba.