Queen · A Day at the Races

You and I

You and I is in D major at 134.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

134 BPM · Allegromedian of 175 analyses · 91.7–134.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
67%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
175people who ran the extractor
One beat
446.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
436Hz · -16 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.37dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.732Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.977Essentia'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

175 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 67% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 175 readings; 66% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 91.7 to 134.6 BPM.

At 134.4 BPM one beat lasts 446.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.6 ms and a dotted eighth 334.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 268.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436 Hz, which is 16 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 4.37 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 0.732 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 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 134 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41785.70.56
Half note2892.91.12
Dotted quarter1.5669.61.49
Quarter note (one beat)1446.42.24
Quarter triplet0.667297.63.36
Dotted eighth0.75334.82.99
Eighth note0.5223.24.48
Eighth triplet0.333148.86.72
Dotted sixteenth0.375167.45.97
Sixteenth note0.25111.68.96
Sixteenth triplet0.16774.413.44
Thirty-second note0.12555.817.92

Half time 67.2 BPM · double time 268.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (446.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Yoü and ILady GagaA major127BPM
  2. You and IMichael BubléE♭ major114BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. P.S. I Love YouThe BeatlesD major134BPM
  2. Aces HighIron MaidenD major135BPM
  3. A Dustland FairytaleThe KillersD major135BPM
  4. Permanent VacationAerosmithD major135BPM
  5. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)U2D major135BPM
  6. JuliaThe BeatlesD major135BPM
  7. What’s Up4 Non BlondesD major135BPM
  8. You Might ThinkThe CarsD major134BPM
  9. Won’t Get Fooled AgainThe WhoD major135BPM
  10. Castle on the HillEd SheeranD major135BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 134 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 134 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMQueen

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5c72ed31-e26c-4947-890c-1b16d29f1c95.