Electric Light Orchestra · Eldorado
Can’t Get It Out of My Head
Can’t Get It Out of My Head is in C major at 164.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 150 analyses · 164.7–165.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 150people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 364.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.35dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.716Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.972Essentia'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
150 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 150 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 164.8 BPM one beat lasts 364.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91 ms and a dotted eighth 273.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 329.6. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 4.35 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 0.716 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 165 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1456.3 | 0.69 |
| Half note | 2 | 728.2 | 1.37 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 546.1 | 1.83 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 364.1 | 2.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 242.7 | 4.12 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 273.1 | 3.66 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 182 | 5.49 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 121.4 | 8.24 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 136.5 | 7.32 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 91 | 10.99 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.7 | 16.48 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.5 | 21.97 |
Half time 82.4 BPM · double time 329.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (364.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Don’t Forget to RememberBee GeesC major165BPM
- Stairway to HeavenLed ZeppelinC major165BPM
- ZombieThe CranberriesC major165BPM
- See‐SawPink FloydC major165BPM
- Let My Love Open the DoorPete TownshendC major165BPM
- A Pair Of Brown EyesThe PoguesC major165BPM
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly DazedDavid BowieC major164BPM
- Mein Herz brenntRammsteinC major166BPM
- RococoArcade FireC major166BPM
- Nine Million BicyclesKatie MeluaC major164BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 165 BPMC major at 160–169 BPMElectric Light Orchestra
MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1a3eb265-bfd0-4faf-9c54-2d974a629d5e.