TempoPeek

Kate Bush · Hounds of Love

Hounds of Love

Hounds of Love is in F major at 145.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

146 BPM · Allegromedian of 132 analyses · 145.2–145.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
132people who ran the extractor
One beat
412.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.8Hz · +15 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.65dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.922Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.111Essentia'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

132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 145.5 BPM one beat lasts 412.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 103.1 ms and a dotted eighth 309.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 291. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.8 Hz, which is 15 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 2.65 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 0.922 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 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 146 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41649.50.61
Half note2824.71.21
Dotted quarter1.5618.61.62
Quarter note (one beat)1412.42.42
Quarter triplet0.667274.93.64
Dotted eighth0.75309.33.23
Eighth note0.5206.24.85
Eighth triplet0.333137.57.28
Dotted sixteenth0.375154.66.47
Sixteenth note0.25103.19.7
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.714.55
Thirty-second note0.12551.519.4

Half time 72.8 BPM · double time 291 BPM. Every row is one beat (412.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Threw It All AwayBob DylanF major145BPM
  2. a lot21 SavageF major146BPM
  3. LevonElton JohnF major146BPM
  4. Tiny DancerElton JohnF major145BPM
  5. Walking on the MoonThe PoliceF major146BPM
  6. The Beautiful OnesPrince and The RevolutionF major145BPM
  7. ScoffNirvanaF major145BPM
  8. The ScientistColdplayF major147BPM
  9. Mary AnnRay CharlesF major144BPM
  10. You Got That RightLynyrd SkynyrdF major147BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 146 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 146 BPMF major at 140–149 BPMKate Bush

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 984deb15-92f3-4917-9929-c0e930dc8a54.