Radiohead · OK Computer
Karma Police
Karma Police is in G major at 150.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
151 BPM · Allegromedian of 265 analyses · 150.5–150.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 92%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 265people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 398.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.32dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.915Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.029Essentia'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
265 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 92% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 265 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 150.5 BPM one beat lasts 398.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99.7 ms and a dotted eighth 299 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 301. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 3.32 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 0.915 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 151 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1594.7 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 797.3 | 1.25 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 598 | 1.67 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 398.7 | 2.51 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 265.8 | 3.76 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 299 | 3.34 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 199.3 | 5.02 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 132.9 | 7.53 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 149.5 | 6.69 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 99.7 | 10.03 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 66.4 | 15.05 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.8 | 20.07 |
Half time 75.3 BPM · double time 301 BPM. Every row is one beat (398.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- You’re a Big Girl NowBob DylanG major151BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 151 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 151 BPMG major at 150–159 BPMRadiohead
MusicBrainz collapses 239 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9e2ad5bc-c6f9-40d2-a36f-3122ee2072a3.