Erasure · Chorus

Love to Hate You

Love to Hate You is in F sharp minor at 119.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

120 BPM · Moderatomedian of 132 analyses · 119.7–120 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F♯ minor3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
132people who ran the extractor
One beat
500.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.67dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.902Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.139Essentia'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

132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in F sharp minor, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 119.8 BPM one beat lasts 500.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.2 ms and a dotted eighth 375.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 239.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 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 3.67 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 0.902 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 F sharp minor; 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 F♯ minor

Each of these differs from F♯ minor 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 120 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42003.30.5
Half note21001.71
Dotted quarter1.5751.31.33
Quarter note (one beat)1500.82
Quarter triplet0.667333.93
Dotted eighth0.75375.62.66
Eighth note0.5250.43.99
Eighth triplet0.333166.95.99
Dotted sixteenth0.375187.85.32
Sixteenth note0.25125.27.99
Sixteenth triplet0.16783.511.98
Thirty-second note0.12562.615.97

Half time 59.9 BPM · double time 239.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (500.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Blasphemous RumoursDepeche ModeF♯ minor120BPM
  2. Good StuffThe B‐52sF♯ minor120BPM
  3. SupernautBlack SabbathF♯ minor121BPM
  4. Gimme ShelterThe Rolling StonesF♯ minor118BPM
  5. The SuburbsArcade FireF♯ minor118BPM
  6. Beat Goes OnMadonna feat. Kanye WestF♯ minor118BPM
  7. I Put a Spell on YouNina SimoneF♯ minor118BPM
  8. The Final CountdownEuropeF♯ minor118BPM
  9. Billie JeanMichael JacksonF♯ minor117BPM
  10. Video GamesLana Del ReyF♯ minor123BPM

Recordings in F sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F sharp minorAll songs at 120 BPMF♯ minor at 110–119 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 45 recording ids into this one. Recording id 73f8e86e-ca5e-4acd-b5d7-5a1b3b69c5a6.