The 1975 · The 1975
Talk!
Talk! is in E major at 119.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
120 BPM · Moderatomedian of 143 analyses · 119.9–120 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 143people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 500.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.07dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.813Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.005Essentia'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
143 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 143 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 119.9 BPM one beat lasts 500.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.1 ms and a dotted eighth 375.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60 BPM, counted twice as fast 239.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 5.07 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 0.813 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 E 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 120 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2001.7 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 1000.8 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 750.6 | 1.33 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 500.4 | 2 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 333.6 | 3 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 375.3 | 2.66 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 250.2 | 4 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 166.8 | 6 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 187.7 | 5.33 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 125.1 | 7.99 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83.4 | 11.99 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.6 | 15.99 |
Half time 60 BPM · double time 239.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (500.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- Dark ParadiseLana Del ReyE major120BPM
- It’s So EasyLinda RonstadtE major120BPM
- Then You Look at MeCéline DionE major120BPM
- The LanguageDrakeE major120BPM
- DynamiteTaio CruzE major120BPM
- BlowKe$haE major120BPM
- DreamlandThe B‐52’sE major120BPM
- Blanket MeHundred WatersE major120BPM
- The One and OnlyChesney HawkesE major120BPM
- Bad KidsLady GagaE major120BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 120 BPME major at 110–119 BPMThe 1975
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 1d2a26c9-dced-49fd-bd73-880765749f35.