TempoPeek

Coldplay · Parachutes

We Never Change

We Never Change is in E major at 91.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

92 BPM · Andantemedian of 256 analyses · 91.4–91.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
256people who ran the extractor
One beat
655.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.45dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.481Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.9Essentia'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

256 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 256 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 91.5 BPM one beat lasts 655.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 163.9 ms and a dotted eighth 491.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 183. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 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 5.45 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 0.481 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 note426230.38
Half note21311.50.76
Dotted quarter1.5983.61.02
Quarter note (one beat)1655.71.53
Quarter triplet0.667437.22.29
Dotted eighth0.75491.82.03
Eighth note0.5327.93.05
Eighth triplet0.333218.64.58
Dotted sixteenth0.375245.94.07
Sixteenth note0.25163.96.1
Sixteenth triplet0.167109.39.15
Thirty-second note0.1258212.2

Half time 45.8 BPM · double time 183 BPM. Every row is one beat (655.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. GodzillaBlue Öyster CultE major92BPM
  2. Give Yourself a TryThe 1975E major91BPM
  3. It GirlJason DeruloE major92BPM
  4. Boom ClapCharli XCXE major92BPM
  5. Mellowship Slinky in B majorRed Hot Chili PeppersE major92BPM
  6. “B” Movie Box Car BluesBlues BrothersE major92BPM
  7. If I Die 2nite2PacE major91BPM
  8. ScatteredGreen DayE major92BPM
  9. Let Me Go3 Doors DownE major92BPM
  10. Octopus’s GardenThe BeatlesE major92BPM

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

All songs in E majorAll songs at 92 BPME major at 90–99 BPMColdplay

MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7e52d1a9-6c02-4f2e-b30e-dc22ef219f3f.