The 1975 · The 1975
Sex
Sex is in D major at 148.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
148 BPM · Allegromedian of 159 analyses · 148.2–148.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 159people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 404.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.17dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.915Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.016Essentia'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
159 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 159 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 148.3 BPM one beat lasts 404.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.1 ms and a dotted eighth 303.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 296.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.17 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 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 148 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1618.3 | 0.62 |
| Half note | 2 | 809.2 | 1.24 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 606.9 | 1.65 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 404.6 | 2.47 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 269.7 | 3.71 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 303.4 | 3.3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 202.3 | 4.94 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 134.9 | 7.42 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 151.7 | 6.59 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 101.1 | 9.89 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 67.4 | 14.83 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 50.6 | 19.77 |
Half time 74.2 BPM · double time 296.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (404.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Baby Can I Hold YouTracy ChapmanD major149BPM
- Hi Fi MamaZZ TopD major148BPM
- When I’m Gone3 Doors DownD major148BPM
- I’ll Be There for YouBon JoviD major148BPM
- SecretsOneRepublicD major148BPM
- Loser3 Doors DownD major148BPM
- Peggy Sue (alternate version)Buddy Holly & The CricketsD major149BPM
- MercyShawn MendesD major148BPM
- Spanish BombsThe ClashD major149BPM
- Slave to LoveBryan FerryD major148BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 148 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 148 BPMD major at 140–149 BPMThe 1975
MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3788c4f2-b989-4355-a33d-3666b5612bf8.