TempoPeek

Jonas Blue featuring Dakota · Blue

Fast Car

Fast Car is in A major at 113.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

114 BPM · Moderatomedian of 265 analyses · 113.5–113.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
265people who ran the extractor
One beat
528.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.22dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.864Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.211Essentia'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

265 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 265 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 113.5 BPM one beat lasts 528.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 132.2 ms and a dotted eighth 396.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 227. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 3.22 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 0.864 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 114 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42114.50.47
Half note21057.30.95
Dotted quarter1.57931.26
Quarter note (one beat)1528.61.89
Quarter triplet0.667352.42.84
Dotted eighth0.75396.52.52
Eighth note0.5264.33.78
Eighth triplet0.333176.25.68
Dotted sixteenth0.375198.25.04
Sixteenth note0.25132.27.57
Sixteenth triplet0.16788.111.35
Thirty-second note0.12566.115.13

Half time 56.8 BPM · double time 227 BPM. Every row is one beat (528.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Fast CarTracy ChapmanA major104BPM

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. And I Love HerThe BeatlesA major113BPM
  2. White Teeth TeensLordeA major114BPM
  3. If You Want It to Be Good Girl (Get Yourself a Bad Boy)Backstreet BoysA major114BPM
  4. Can’t Stop This Thing We StartedBryan AdamsA major113BPM
  5. Gimme MoreBritney SpearsA major113BPM
  6. HighThe CureA major114BPM
  7. Sick AgainLed ZeppelinA major113BPM
  8. Wasting Timeblink‐182A major114BPM
  9. What Time Is It?Spin DoctorsA major115BPM
  10. MachineheadBushA major113BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 114 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 114 BPMA major at 110–119 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 0f5656f8-4650-4147-a971-6aa1eaab521a.