TempoPeek

Queen · Innuendo

I’m Going Slightly Mad

I’m Going Slightly Mad is in D minor at 115.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 166 analyses · 115.4–115.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
166people who ran the extractor
One beat
518.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
447.2Hz · +28 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.94dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.819Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.036Essentia'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

166 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 166 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 115.7 BPM one beat lasts 518.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129.6 ms and a dotted eighth 388.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 231.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.2 Hz, which is 28 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 2.94 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 0.819 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 D minor; 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D minor 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 116 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42074.30.48
Half note21037.20.96
Dotted quarter1.5777.91.29
Quarter note (one beat)1518.61.93
Quarter triplet0.667345.72.89
Dotted eighth0.75388.92.57
Eighth note0.5259.33.86
Eighth triplet0.333172.95.79
Dotted sixteenth0.375194.55.14
Sixteenth note0.25129.67.71
Sixteenth triplet0.16786.411.57
Thirty-second note0.12564.815.43

Half time 57.9 BPM · double time 231.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (518.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. It’s Gotta Be YouBackstreet BoysD minor116BPM
  2. The RobotsKraftwerkD minor115BPM
  3. World TurningFleetwood MacD minor116BPM
  4. I’ll WaitVan HalenD minor115BPM
  5. RuinerNine Inch NailsD minor117BPM
  6. Run Like HellPink FloydD minor117BPM
  7. Treading PaperThriceD minor115BPM
  8. MotownphillyBoyz II MenD minor115BPM
  9. InterruptApparatD minor115BPM
  10. SexyBackJustin Timberlake feat. TimbalandD minor117BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 116 BPMD minor at 110–119 BPMQueen

MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 27fd84a2-daf6-4ecf-81ad-fdfb52a668ae.