Elvis Costello · This Year’s Model
(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea
(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea is in D major at 165.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 158 analyses · 165.1–165.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 68%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 158people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 363.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.2Hz · -11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.97dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.843Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.161Essentia'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
158 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 68% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 158 readings; 92% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 165.2 BPM one beat lasts 363.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.8 ms and a dotted eighth 272.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 330.4. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.2 Hz, which is 11 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 2.97 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 0.843 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 | 1452.8 | 0.69 |
| Half note | 2 | 726.4 | 1.38 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 544.8 | 1.84 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 363.2 | 2.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 242.1 | 4.13 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 272.4 | 3.67 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 181.6 | 5.51 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 121.1 | 8.26 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 136.2 | 7.34 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 90.8 | 11.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.5 | 16.52 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.4 | 22.03 |
Half time 82.6 BPM · double time 330.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (363.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Summer ’68Pink FloydD major165BPM
- Pink MoonNick DrakeD major165BPM
- Here With MeDidoD major166BPM
- Hitchin’ a RideGreen DayD major164BPM
- Some How Some WayJay‐Z feat. Beanie Sigel & ScarfaceD major164BPM
- End of the LineTraveling WilburysD major166BPM
- GirlfriendAvril LavigneD major164BPM
- Rock Your Heart OutAC/DCD major164BPM
- There’s a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)The B‐52sD major164BPM
- Las palabras de amor (The Words of Love)QueenD major164BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 165 BPMD major at 160–169 BPMElvis Costello
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 61518858-c568-4964-8076-36fc978d2b90.