Green Day · American Idiot
American Idiot
American Idiot is in C sharp minor at 93 beats per minute.
Tempo
93 BPM · Andantemedian of 378 analyses · 92.9–93 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 87%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 378people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 645.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 1.9dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.97Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.152Essentia'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
378 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 87% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 378 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 93 BPM one beat lasts 645.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 161.3 ms and a dotted eighth 483.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 186. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 1.9 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 0.97 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 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 C♯ minor
Each of these differs from C♯ 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 93 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2580.6 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1290.3 | 0.78 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 967.7 | 1.03 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 645.2 | 1.55 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 430.1 | 2.33 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 483.9 | 2.07 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 322.6 | 3.1 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 215.1 | 4.65 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 241.9 | 4.13 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 161.3 | 6.2 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 107.5 | 9.3 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 80.6 | 12.4 |
Half time 46.5 BPM · double time 186 BPM. Every row is one beat (645.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Try AgainAaliyahC♯ minor93BPM
- The Boy Is MineBrandy & MonicaC♯ minor93BPM
- HousewifeDr. Dre featuring Kurupt & HittmanC♯ minor93BPM
- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)Marvin GayeC♯ minor93BPM
- Throw Your Set in the AirCypress HillC♯ minor92BPM
- All Around the WorldJay‐Z feat. LaToiya WilliamsC♯ minor94BPM
- Sour TimesPortisheadC♯ minor94BPM
- Freddie’s DeadCurtis MayfieldC♯ minor91BPM
- Oops!...I Did It AgainBritney SpearsC♯ minor95BPM
- This Is the LifeAmy MacdonaldC♯ minor95BPM
Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 93 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 93 BPMC♯ minor at 90–99 BPMGreen Day
MusicBrainz collapses 36 recording ids into this one. Recording id d3bd52f1-3d84-445b-84f5-7899de8f9340.