Paul Young · The Secret of Association
Every Time You Go Away
Every Time You Go Away is in F major at 164.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
164 BPM · Vivacemedian of 152 analyses · 82.3–164.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 152people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 365.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.83dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.817Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.049Essentia'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
152 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 152 readings; 87% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 82.3 to 164.3 BPM.
At 164.2 BPM one beat lasts 365.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.4 ms and a dotted eighth 274.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 328.4. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 3.83 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 0.817 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 164 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1461.6 | 0.68 |
| Half note | 2 | 730.8 | 1.37 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 548.1 | 1.82 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 365.4 | 2.74 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 243.6 | 4.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 274.1 | 3.65 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 182.7 | 5.47 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 121.8 | 8.21 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 137 | 7.3 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 91.4 | 10.95 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.9 | 16.42 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.7 | 21.89 |
Half time 82.1 BPM · double time 328.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (365.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Wash.Bon IverF major164BPM
- Peace TrainCat StevensF major165BPM
- Pale Blue EyesThe Velvet UndergroundF major165BPM
- Love Is a Losing GameAmy WinehouseF major165BPM
- Paranoid AndroidRadioheadF major164BPM
- 21 GunsGreen DayF major164BPM
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)Bruce Springsteen & The E Street BandF major164BPM
- TimshelMumford & SonsF major164BPM
- BosniaThe CranberriesF major164BPM
- The JokerSteve Miller BandF major165BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 164 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 164 BPMF major at 160–169 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 74 recording ids into this one. Recording id 11120832-ca07-49e5-8d89-3aee6e414d6c.