Etta James · At Last!

At Last

At Last is in F major at 165.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 257 analyses · 89.4–172.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
257people who ran the extractor
One beat
363.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.97dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.446Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.882Essentia'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

257 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 257 readings; 35% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 89.4 to 172.3 BPM.

At 165.1 BPM one beat lasts 363.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.9 ms and a dotted eighth 272.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 330.2. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 cents above 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 5.97 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 0.446 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 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41453.70.69
Half note2726.81.38
Dotted quarter1.5545.11.83
Quarter note (one beat)1363.42.75
Quarter triplet0.667242.34.13
Dotted eighth0.75272.63.67
Eighth note0.5181.75.5
Eighth triplet0.333121.18.25
Dotted sixteenth0.375136.37.34
Sixteenth note0.2590.911.01
Sixteenth triplet0.16760.616.51
Thirty-second note0.12545.422.01

Half time 82.6 BPM · double time 330.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (363.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. At LastCéline DionF♯ major89BPM

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. The JokerSteve Miller BandF major165BPM
  2. Love Is a Losing GameAmy WinehouseF major165BPM
  3. Devil in My CarThe B‐52sF major166BPM
  4. 5 YearsBjörkF major166BPM
  5. Peace TrainCat StevensF major165BPM
  6. Pale Blue EyesThe Velvet UndergroundF major165BPM
  7. A Ballad for the Fallen SoldierJay‐ZF major166BPM
  8. Every Time You Go AwayPaul YoungF major164BPM
  9. Wash.Bon IverF major164BPM
  10. Join TogetherThe WhoF major166BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 165 BPMF major at 160–169 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 49 recording ids into this one. Recording id c81a809c-10d0-4fa7-9171-2ce8635ce87c.