The Cranberries · Bury the Hatchet
Promises
Promises is in E minor at 130 beats per minute.
Tempo
130 BPM · Allegromedian of 185 analyses · 129.9–135.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 185people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 461.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.49dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.82Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.169Essentia'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
185 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 185 readings; 77% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 129.9 to 135.7 BPM.
At 130 BPM one beat lasts 461.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.4 ms and a dotted eighth 346.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65 BPM, counted twice as fast 260. 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 3.49 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 0.82 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 minor; 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 minor
Each of these differs from E minor 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 130 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1846.2 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 923.1 | 1.08 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 692.3 | 1.44 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 461.5 | 2.17 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 307.7 | 3.25 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 346.2 | 2.89 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 230.8 | 4.33 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 153.8 | 6.5 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 173.1 | 5.78 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 115.4 | 8.67 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76.9 | 13 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.7 | 17.33 |
Half time 65 BPM · double time 260 BPM. Every row is one beat (461.5 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
- Eight Miles HighThe ByrdsE minor130BPM
- The WalkThe CureE minor130BPM
- Pigs (Three Different Ones)Pink FloydE minor130BPM
- Put Your Money Where Your Mouth IsJetE minor131BPM
- Love FoolosophyJamiroquaiE minor129BPM
- Ain’t No Mountain High EnoughMarvin Gaye & Tammi TerrellE minor129BPM
- Take Me to ChurchHozierE minor129BPM
- Superstylin’Groove ArmadaE minor129BPM
- Voulez‐vous danserAce of BaseE minor129BPM
- Are You Gonna Go My WayLenny KravitzE minor129BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 130 BPME minor at 130–139 BPMThe Cranberries
MusicBrainz collapses 33 recording ids into this one. Recording id c65b764f-b735-4630-b06f-d48b4782fb38.