Chuck Berry · Chuck Berry Is on Top
Little Queenie
Little Queenie is in C major at 151.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
152 BPM · Allegromedian of 208 analyses · 151.7–151.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 208people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 395.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.34dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.789Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.208Essentia'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
208 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 208 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 151.7 BPM one beat lasts 395.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.9 ms and a dotted eighth 296.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 303.4. 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 4.34 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 0.789 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 152 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1582.1 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 791 | 1.26 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 593.3 | 1.69 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 395.5 | 2.53 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 263.7 | 3.79 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 296.6 | 3.37 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 197.8 | 5.06 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 131.8 | 7.58 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 148.3 | 6.74 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 98.9 | 10.11 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65.9 | 15.17 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.4 | 20.23 |
Half time 75.9 BPM · double time 303.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (395.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- ImagineJohn LennonC major152BPM
- I’m Gonna CrawlLed ZeppelinC major152BPM
- Only the Good Die YoungBilly JoelC major152BPM
- StagesZZ TopC major152BPM
- BirdsNeil YoungC major152BPM
- Devil’s Right HandJohnny CashC major151BPM
- Can You Feel the Love TonightJoseph Williams and Sally Dworsky with Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, and Kristle EdwardsC major151BPM
- Free BirdLynyrd SkynyrdC major151BPM
- Fire and RainJames TaylorC major152BPM
- GuiltyBarbra Streisand with Barry GibbC major151BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 152 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 152 BPMC major at 150–159 BPMChuck Berry
MusicBrainz collapses 63 recording ids into this one. Recording id ab2e518f-a183-41e6-ae7e-6fed2e6f9c0d.