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Fleetwood Mac · Rumours

Never Going Back Again

Never Going Back Again is in F sharp major at 178.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

178 BPM · Prestomedian of 250 analyses · 88.1–178.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F♯ major6 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
250people who ran the extractor
One beat
336.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
445.6Hz · +22 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.02dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.475Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.053Essentia'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

250 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in F sharp major, a key signature of 6 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 250 readings; 72% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 88.1 to 178.2 BPM.

At 178.2 BPM one beat lasts 336.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 84.2 ms and a dotted eighth 252.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 89.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 356.4. A score would mark that Presto, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.6 Hz, which is 22 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 4.02 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 0.475 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 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 178 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41346.80.74
Half note2673.41.49
Dotted quarter1.5505.11.98
Quarter note (one beat)1336.72.97
Quarter triplet0.667224.54.46
Dotted eighth0.75252.53.96
Eighth note0.5168.45.94
Eighth triplet0.333112.28.91
Dotted sixteenth0.375126.37.92
Sixteenth note0.2584.211.88
Sixteenth triplet0.16756.117.82
Thirty-second note0.12542.123.76

Half time 89.1 BPM · double time 356.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (336.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. TangerineLed ZeppelinF♯ major178BPM
  2. Surf Wax AmericaWeezerF♯ major172BPM
  3. Good CompanyQueenF♯ major185BPM
  4. Travelin’ BandCreedence Clearwater RevivalF♯ major165BPM
  5. Psychotic ReactionCount FiveF♯ major165BPM
  6. Better in TimeLeona LewisF♯ major164BPM
  7. A Winter’s TaleQueenF♯ major163BPM
  8. Oh! You Pretty ThingsDavid BowieF♯ major162BPM
  9. It’s TrueBackstreet BoysF♯ major162BPM
  10. He’s Misstra Know‐It‐AllStevie WonderF♯ major162BPM

Recordings in F sharp major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 178 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F sharp majorAll songs at 178 BPMFleetwood Mac

MusicBrainz collapses 31 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0b304971-9f84-485b-9f34-50f12004cf0d.