The Cranberries · Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?
I Will Always
I Will Always is in F major at 112.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 137 analyses · 112.3–112.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 57%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 137people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 533.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.88dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.871Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.096Essentia'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
137 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 57% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 137 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 112.4 BPM one beat lasts 533.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.5 ms and a dotted eighth 400.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 224.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 4.88 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 0.871 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 112 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2135.2 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1067.6 | 0.94 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 800.7 | 1.25 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 533.8 | 1.87 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 355.9 | 2.81 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 400.4 | 2.5 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 266.9 | 3.75 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 177.9 | 5.62 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 200.2 | 5 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 133.5 | 7.49 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 89 | 11.24 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66.7 | 14.99 |
Half time 56.2 BPM · double time 224.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (533.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Radio Ga GaQueenF major112BPM
- Untitled (How Does It Feel)D’AngeloF major113BPM
- Less Than ZeroElvis CostelloF major113BPM
- (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your BootyKC and the Sunshine BandF major112BPM
- SpeechlessBeyoncéF major113BPM
- Kid ARadioheadF major113BPM
- In the NightThe WeekndF major112BPM
- Your Heart Is an Empty RoomDeath Cab for CutieF major112BPM
- Machine GunCommodoresF major113BPM
- AmericaImagine DragonsF major113BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 112 BPMF major at 110–119 BPMThe Cranberries
MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9eb20acc-789c-46ac-828a-a7b52232ad79.