Five for Fighting · The Battle for Everything
100 Years
100 Years is in C major at 120.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 136 analyses · 120.5–120.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 136people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 497.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.9Hz · -0.5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.18dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.746Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.026Essentia'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
136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 120.5 BPM one beat lasts 497.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.5 ms and a dotted eighth 373.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 241. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.9 Hz, which is 0.5 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 5.18 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 0.746 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 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1991.7 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 995.9 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 746.9 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 497.9 | 2.01 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 332 | 3.01 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 373.4 | 2.68 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 249 | 4.02 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 166 | 6.03 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186.7 | 5.36 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.5 | 8.03 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83 | 12.05 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.2 | 16.07 |
Half time 60.3 BPM · double time 241 BPM. Every row is one beat (497.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Presence of the LordBlind FaithC major120BPM
- The Anchor SongBjörkC major121BPM
- SorrowDavid BowieC major120BPM
- The SoundThe 1975C major121BPM
- New York State of MindBilly JoelC major121BPM
- The Black Angel’s Death SongThe Velvet UndergroundC major121BPM
- Sweet ThingDavid BowieC major120BPM
- The Look of LoveABCC major121BPM
- Private EyesDaryl Hall & John OatesC major121BPM
- bury a friendBillie EilishC major120BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 121 BPMC major at 120–129 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 16 recording ids into this one. Recording id f410a11b-292a-4baa-ae0d-b576146e988e.