TempoPeek

The Cranberries · No Need to Argue

I Can’t Be With You

I Can’t Be With You is in B flat major at 129.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

129 BPM · Allegromedian of 155 analyses · 129.2–129.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
155people who ran the extractor
One beat
464milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.9dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.913Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.227Essentia'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

155 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 155 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 129.3 BPM one beat lasts 464 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116 ms and a dotted eighth 348 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 258.6. 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 4.9 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 0.913 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 B flat 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 B♭ major

Each of these differs from B♭ 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 129 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41856.10.54
Half note2928.11.08
Dotted quarter1.5696.11.44
Quarter note (one beat)14642.16
Quarter triplet0.667309.43.23
Dotted eighth0.753482.87
Eighth note0.52324.31
Eighth triplet0.333154.76.47
Dotted sixteenth0.3751745.75
Sixteenth note0.251168.62
Sixteenth triplet0.16777.312.93
Thirty-second note0.1255817.24

Half time 64.7 BPM · double time 258.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (464 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. ThinkAretha FranklinB♭ major129BPM
  2. NarayanProdigyB♭ major129BPM
  3. Get Up and JumpThe Red Hot Chili PeppersB♭ major130BPM
  4. It’s Oh So QuietBjörkB♭ major130BPM
  5. UnforgettableNat King ColeB♭ major129BPM
  6. Fork2 ChainzB♭ major129BPM
  7. Love BitesDef LeppardB♭ major130BPM
  8. I’ll Never Love AgainTaio CruzB♭ major130BPM
  9. Why I Sing the BluesAretha FranklinB♭ major130BPM
  10. Man Next DoorMassive AttackB♭ major130BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 129 BPMB♭ major at 120–129 BPMThe Cranberries

MusicBrainz collapses 58 recording ids into this one. Recording id f82237a4-43c6-4400-8954-fe59a907d4f4.