Snow Patrol · Final Straw

Run

Run is in C major at 149.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

149 BPM · Allegromedian of 149 analyses · 149.2–149.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
149people who ran the extractor
One beat
402.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.27dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.937Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.003Essentia'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

149 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 149 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 149.2 BPM one beat lasts 402.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 100.5 ms and a dotted eighth 301.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 298.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 2.27 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 0.937 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 149 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41608.60.62
Half note2804.31.24
Dotted quarter1.5603.21.66
Quarter note (one beat)1402.12.49
Quarter triplet0.667268.13.73
Dotted eighth0.75301.63.32
Eighth note0.5201.14.97
Eighth triplet0.3331347.46
Dotted sixteenth0.375150.86.63
Sixteenth note0.25100.59.95
Sixteenth triplet0.1676714.92
Thirty-second note0.12550.319.89

Half time 74.6 BPM · double time 298.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (402.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. RunAirD minor120BPM

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. Shoot the MoonNorah JonesC major149BPM
  2. Can’t Stop Rockin’ZZ TopC major149BPM
  3. Hey BartenderBlues BrothersC major149BPM
  4. Be Good to YourselfJourneyC major149BPM
  5. A Whiter Shade of PaleProcol HarumC major149BPM
  6. My Love, My LifeABBAC major149BPM
  7. Wrong ’Em BoyoThe ClashC major148BPM
  8. Between Two LungsFlorence + the MachineC major150BPM
  9. Deuces Are WildAerosmithC major150BPM
  10. Lean On MeBill WithersC major148BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 149 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 149 BPMC major at 140–149 BPMSnow Patrol

MusicBrainz collapses 54 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7c544629-8ce3-4b2e-8460-51c72d6f3722.