The B‐52s · The B‐52’s
Hero Worship
Hero Worship is in D major at 144.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
145 BPM · Allegromedian of 204 analyses · 144.4–144.6 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
- 204people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 414.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.7Hz · -9 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.61dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.837Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.168Essentia'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
204 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 204 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 144.6 BPM one beat lasts 414.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 103.7 ms and a dotted eighth 311.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 289.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.7 Hz, which is 9 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 3.61 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 0.837 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 145 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1659.8 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 829.9 | 1.21 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 622.4 | 1.61 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 414.9 | 2.41 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 276.6 | 3.62 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 311.2 | 3.21 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 207.5 | 4.82 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 138.3 | 7.23 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 155.6 | 6.43 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 103.7 | 9.64 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.2 | 14.46 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51.9 | 19.28 |
Half time 72.3 BPM · double time 289.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (414.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast: a) Rise and Shine / b) Sunny Side Up / c) Morning GloryPink FloydD major145BPM
- Shine OnJetD major145BPM
- A Groovy Kind of LovePhil CollinsD major144BPM
- We Didn’t Start the FireBilly JoelD major145BPM
- Us and ThemPink FloydD major144BPM
- The Song Remains the SameLed ZeppelinD major145BPM
- Now GenerationThe Black Eyed PeasD major145BPM
- Stay Together for the Kidsblink‐182D major145BPM
- Find the RiverR.E.M.D major144BPM
- The Fool On The HillThe BeatlesD major144BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 145 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 145 BPMD major at 140–149 BPMThe B‐52s
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 13b3d373-2468-491e-a59c-ecf2b68255cc.