TempoPeek

Coldplay · A Head Full of Dreams

Birds

Birds is in F major at 105 beats per minute.

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Tempo

105 BPM · Andantemedian of 146 analyses · 105–105 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
146people who ran the extractor
One beat
571.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.41dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.918Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.08Essentia'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

146 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 146 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 105 BPM one beat lasts 571.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 142.9 ms and a dotted eighth 428.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 210. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 2.41 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 0.918 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 105 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42285.70.44
Half note21142.90.88
Dotted quarter1.5857.11.17
Quarter note (one beat)1571.41.75
Quarter triplet0.6673812.63
Dotted eighth0.75428.62.33
Eighth note0.5285.73.5
Eighth triplet0.333190.55.25
Dotted sixteenth0.375214.34.67
Sixteenth note0.25142.97
Sixteenth triplet0.16795.210.5
Thirty-second note0.12571.414

Half time 52.5 BPM · double time 210 BPM. Every row is one beat (571.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. BirdsNeil YoungC major152BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. RomanzaAndrea BocelliF major105BPM
  2. A Change of HeartThe 1975F major105BPM
  3. Burn One DownBen HarperF major105BPM
  4. Love Will Find a WayChristina AguileraF major105BPM
  5. Long, Long, LongThe BeatlesF major105BPM
  6. Lookin’ out My Back DoorCreedence Clearwater RevivalF major105BPM
  7. Walk on the Wild SideLou ReedF major105BPM
  8. Nobody HomePink FloydF major106BPM
  9. Self EsteemOffspringF major106BPM
  10. It’s the Falling in LoveMichael JacksonF major106BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 105 BPMF major at 100–109 BPMColdplay

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id e3f810ca-b49e-4ba4-b0a4-767892d27691.