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Love Is a Battlefield

Love Is a Battlefield is in F major at 178.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

178 BPM · Prestomedian of 140 analyses · 178.2–184.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
79%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
140people who ran the extractor
One beat
336.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.18dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.892Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.135Essentia'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

140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 62% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 178.2 to 184.6 BPM.

At 178.2 BPM one beat lasts 336.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 84.2 ms and a dotted eighth 252.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 89.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 356.4. A score would mark that Presto, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.18 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 0.892 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 178 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41346.80.74
Half note2673.41.49
Dotted quarter1.5505.11.98
Quarter note (one beat)1336.72.97
Quarter triplet0.667224.54.46
Dotted eighth0.75252.53.96
Eighth note0.5168.45.94
Eighth triplet0.333112.28.91
Dotted sixteenth0.375126.37.92
Sixteenth note0.2584.211.88
Sixteenth triplet0.16756.117.82
Thirty-second note0.12542.123.76

Half time 89.1 BPM · double time 356.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (336.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Mr. Tambourine ManBob DylanF major172BPM
  2. Sleigh RideNeil DiamondF major172BPM
  3. AngelAretha FranklinF major172BPM
  4. Keep On Loving YouREO SpeedwagonF major172BPM
  5. You Can Leave Your Hat OnJoe CockerF major172BPM
  6. Sleepy Time TimeCreamF major172BPM
  7. AspirinApparatF major172BPM
  8. Once Upon a DreamMary Costa, Bill Shirley and ChorusF major172BPM
  9. White FlagDidoF major172BPM
  10. JustRadioheadF major172BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 178 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 178 BPMF major at 170–179 BPMPat Benatar

MusicBrainz collapses 150 recording ids into this one. Recording id d676560b-2710-4cf5-af3d-040826ffb696.