TempoPeek

Foreigner · Head Games

Women

Women is in E minor at 153.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

154 BPM · Allegromedian of 140 analyses · 153.6–154 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
55%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
140people who ran the extractor
One beat
390.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.4dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.859Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.198Essentia'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

140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 55% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 153.7 BPM one beat lasts 390.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.6 ms and a dotted eighth 292.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 307.4. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.4 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 0.859 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 E 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E 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 154 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41561.50.64
Half note2780.71.28
Dotted quarter1.5585.61.71
Quarter note (one beat)1390.42.56
Quarter triplet0.667260.23.84
Dotted eighth0.75292.83.42
Eighth note0.5195.25.12
Eighth triplet0.333130.17.69
Dotted sixteenth0.375146.46.83
Sixteenth note0.2597.610.25
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.115.37
Thirty-second note0.12548.820.49

Half time 76.9 BPM · double time 307.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (390.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. WomenDef LeppardG major86BPM

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. EffigyCreedence Clearwater RevivalE minor154BPM
  2. Private InvestigationsDire StraitsE minor153BPM
  3. The Better Life3 Doors DownE minor153BPM
  4. Shake a LegAC/DCE minor153BPM
  5. I Wanna LiveRamonesE minor155BPM
  6. The TrialPink FloydE minor152BPM
  7. Climbing Up the WallsRadioheadE minor155BPM
  8. StopPink FloydE minor151BPM
  9. Planet of WomenZZ TopE minor151BPM
  10. [Parallel Stripes]Aphex TwinE minor151BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 154 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 154 BPME minor at 150–159 BPMForeigner

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 17d1cc9d-52bc-44ce-a9ec-99bce05fb228.