TempoPeek

Bruce Springsteen · Born in the U.S.A.

Working on the Highway

Working on the Highway is in F major at 91.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

92 BPM · Andantemedian of 156 analyses · 91.8–91.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
156people who ran the extractor
One beat
652.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.9Hz · -4.5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.16dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.898Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.209Essentia'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

156 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 156 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 91.9 BPM one beat lasts 652.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 163.2 ms and a dotted eighth 489.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46 BPM, counted twice as fast 183.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.9 Hz, which is 4.5 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 3.16 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 0.898 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 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 92 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42611.50.38
Half note21305.80.77
Dotted quarter1.5979.31.02
Quarter note (one beat)1652.91.53
Quarter triplet0.667435.32.3
Dotted eighth0.75489.72.04
Eighth note0.5326.43.06
Eighth triplet0.333217.64.6
Dotted sixteenth0.375244.84.08
Sixteenth note0.25163.26.13
Sixteenth triplet0.167108.89.19
Thirty-second note0.12581.612.25

Half time 46 BPM · double time 183.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (652.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Crazy LoveCeCe PenistonF major92BPM
  2. Imma BeThe Black Eyed PeasF major92BPM
  3. Let’s Get RockedDef LeppardF major92BPM
  4. You Can’t Always Get What You WantThe Rolling StonesF major92BPM
  5. GorgeousTaylor SwiftF major92BPM
  6. Freedom 90George MichaelF major92BPM
  7. PartitionBeyoncéF major91BPM
  8. Goblink‐182F major91BPM
  9. Big RiverJohnny Cash and The Tennessee TwoF major91BPM
  10. Ramblin’Aretha FranklinF major93BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 92 BPMF major at 90–99 BPMBruce Springsteen

MusicBrainz collapses 94 recording ids into this one. Recording id bf39f6ca-2bea-4c64-af05-e907dfa6c4e2.