Coldplay · Parachutes
Everything’s Not Lost / Life Is for Living
Everything’s Not Lost / Life Is for Living is in A major at 135.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 261 analyses · 135.6–135.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 261people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 442.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.13dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.509Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.926Essentia'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
261 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 261 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 135.7 BPM one beat lasts 442.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.5 ms and a dotted eighth 331.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 271.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 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 8.13 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 0.509 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 value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1768.6 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 884.3 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 663.2 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 442.2 | 2.26 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 294.8 | 3.39 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 331.6 | 3.02 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 221.1 | 4.52 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147.4 | 6.79 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.8 | 6.03 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.5 | 9.05 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.7 | 13.57 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.3 | 18.09 |
Half time 67.9 BPM · double time 271.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (442.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- All the MadmenDavid BowieA major136BPM
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- Never Say GoodbyeBon JoviA major136BPM
- I’ll Feel a Whole Lot BetterThe ByrdsA major135BPM
- Smack My Bitch UpProdigyA major136BPM
- It’s So EasyThe Crickets feat. Buddy HollyA major136BPM
- RadioactiveImagine DragonsA major136BPM
- Someone Like YouAdeleA major135BPM
- (I Can’t Get No) SatisfactionThe Rolling StonesA major136BPM
- Rock Is DeadMarilyn MansonA major135BPM
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 BPMColdplay
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 78485fd1-136d-4f2b-ae93-d9815d828e26.