TempoPeek

Massive Attack · Heligoland

Paradise Circus

Paradise Circus is in A flat major at 135.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

136 BPM · Allegromedian of 132 analyses · 135.9–136 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
92%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
132people who ran the extractor
One beat
441.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.38dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.419Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.076Essentia'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. Most of them — 92% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. 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 135.9 BPM one beat lasts 441.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.4 ms and a dotted eighth 331.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68 BPM, counted twice as fast 271.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 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 5.38 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 0.419 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 flat 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 136 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note417660.57
Half note28831.13
Dotted quarter1.5662.31.51
Quarter note (one beat)1441.52.27
Quarter triplet0.667294.33.4
Dotted eighth0.75331.13.02
Eighth note0.5220.84.53
Eighth triplet0.333147.26.8
Dotted sixteenth0.375165.66.04
Sixteenth note0.25110.49.06
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.613.59
Thirty-second note0.12555.218.12

Half time 68 BPM · double time 271.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (441.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. We Like to PartyVengaboysA♭ major136BPM
  2. Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation ShowNeil DiamondA♭ major136BPM
  3. Nothing Even MattersLauryn Hill feat. D’AngeloA♭ major136BPM
  4. Le Blues du businessmanCéline DionA♭ major136BPM
  5. Crazy WorldABBAA♭ major136BPM
  6. Feel Your Love TonightVan HalenA♭ major135BPM
  7. Let It GoIdina MenzelA♭ major137BPM
  8. Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn TissBloodhound GangA♭ major135BPM
  9. Laura PalmerBastilleA♭ major135BPM
  10. Heroes and VillainsThe Beach BoysA♭ major137BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 136 BPMA♭ major at 130–139 BPMMassive Attack

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id b350a371-25ea-410d-8c3e-c138503a7cee.