TempoPeek

The Clash · London Calling

The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat is in C major at 143.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

144 BPM · Allegromedian of 138 analyses · 142.8–143.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
138people who ran the extractor
One beat
417milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.85dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.925Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.2Essentia'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

138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 142.8 to 143.9 BPM.

At 143.9 BPM one beat lasts 417 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.2 ms and a dotted eighth 312.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72 BPM, counted twice as fast 287.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 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 3.85 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 0.925 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 144 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41667.80.6
Half note2833.91.2
Dotted quarter1.5625.41.6
Quarter note (one beat)14172.4
Quarter triplet0.6672783.6
Dotted eighth0.75312.73.2
Eighth note0.5208.54.8
Eighth triplet0.3331397.2
Dotted sixteenth0.375156.46.4
Sixteenth note0.25104.29.59
Sixteenth triplet0.16769.514.39
Thirty-second note0.12552.119.19

Half time 72 BPM · double time 287.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (417 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. AmericanLana Del ReyC major144BPM
  2. Salt and ShadowThriceC major144BPM
  3. Enough SpaceFoo FightersC major144BPM
  4. Time and Time AgainCounting CrowsC major144BPM
  5. Love Is a RoseLinda RonstadtC major144BPM
  6. Country FeedbackR.E.M.C major144BPM
  7. Growin’ UpBruce SpringsteenC major143BPM
  8. SkinMadonnaC major143BPM
  9. If I Knew ThenBackstreet BoysC major145BPM
  10. Old Brown ShoeThe BeatlesC major143BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 144 BPMC major at 140–149 BPMThe Clash

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id d8f25235-6a0c-4051-9952-03188b3cc51d.