TempoPeek

Imagine Dragons · Night Visions

Underdog

Underdog is in C major at 100 beats per minute.

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Tempo

100 BPM · Andantemedian of 150 analyses · 100–100 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
150people who ran the extractor
One beat
600milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.12dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.832Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.283Essentia'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

150 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 150 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 100 BPM one beat lasts 600 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 150 ms and a dotted eighth 450 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50 BPM, counted twice as fast 200. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 4.12 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 0.832 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 100 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note424000.42
Half note212000.83
Dotted quarter1.59001.11
Quarter note (one beat)16001.67
Quarter triplet0.6674002.5
Dotted eighth0.754502.22
Eighth note0.53003.33
Eighth triplet0.3332005
Dotted sixteenth0.3752254.44
Sixteenth note0.251506.67
Sixteenth triplet0.16710010
Thirty-second note0.1257513.33

Half time 50 BPM · double time 200 BPM. Every row is one beat (600 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. UnderdogAudio AdrenalineC major145BPM

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. On Top of the WorldImagine DragonsC major100BPM
  2. Leave ItYesC major100BPM
  3. Marching Bands of ManhattanDeath Cab for CutieC major100BPM
  4. DeliriousPrinceC major100BPM
  5. It Ain't MeKygo & Selena GomezC major100BPM
  6. The Long RunEaglesC major100BPM
  7. Tomorrow Never KnowsPhil CollinsC major101BPM
  8. Hello GoodbyeThe BeatlesC major99BPM
  9. The Last Remaining LightAudioslaveC major101BPM
  10. Ballerina GirlLionel RichieC major101BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 100 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 100 BPMC major at 100–109 BPMImagine Dragons

MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id 80b82002-46c4-46e6-ba8f-a7ae9c56f8ac.