TempoPeek

Coldplay · Ghost Stories

Magic

Magic is in A major at 93.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

94 BPM · Andantemedian of 199 analyses · 93.5–93.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
199people who ran the extractor
One beat
641.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.13dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.931Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.311Essentia'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

199 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 199 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 93.5 BPM one beat lasts 641.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 160.4 ms and a dotted eighth 481.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 187. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 4.13 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 0.931 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 94 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42566.80.39
Half note21283.40.78
Dotted quarter1.5962.61.04
Quarter note (one beat)1641.71.56
Quarter triplet0.667427.82.34
Dotted eighth0.75481.32.08
Eighth note0.5320.93.12
Eighth triplet0.333213.94.68
Dotted sixteenth0.375240.64.16
Sixteenth note0.25160.46.23
Sixteenth triplet0.1671079.35
Thirty-second note0.12580.212.47

Half time 46.8 BPM · double time 187 BPM. Every row is one beat (641.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. MagicThe CarsA major118BPM

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. Out on the TilesLed ZeppelinA major93BPM
  2. No Way BackFoo FightersA major93BPM
  3. Back in BlackAC/DCA major93BPM
  4. Friday on My MindDavid BowieA major94BPM
  5. Weather With YouCrowded HouseA major94BPM
  6. Somebody Up There Likes MeDavid BowieA major93BPM
  7. That’s the Way It IsCéline DionA major93BPM
  8. Tears Before BedtimeElvis Costello & The AttractionsA major94BPM
  9. Young LustAerosmithA major94BPM
  10. AirplanesB.o.B feat. Hayley Williams of ParamoreA major93BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 94 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 94 BPMA major at 90–99 BPMColdplay

MusicBrainz collapses 15 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5eaee471-7c3e-49ef-9dba-2f09b2d41fd3.