TempoPeek

The Cranberries · No Need to Argue

Zombie

Zombie is in C major at 165 beats per minute.

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Tempo

165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 408 analyses · 164.9–165.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
78%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
408people who ran the extractor
One beat
363.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
449.2Hz · +36 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.41dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.857Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.247Essentia'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

408 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 78% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 408 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 165 BPM one beat lasts 363.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.9 ms and a dotted eighth 272.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 330. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 449.2 Hz, which is 36 cents above 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 3.41 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 0.857 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 165 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41454.50.69
Half note2727.31.38
Dotted quarter1.5545.51.83
Quarter note (one beat)1363.62.75
Quarter triplet0.667242.44.13
Dotted eighth0.75272.73.67
Eighth note0.5181.85.5
Eighth triplet0.333121.28.25
Dotted sixteenth0.375136.47.33
Sixteenth note0.2590.911
Sixteenth triplet0.16760.616.5
Thirty-second note0.12545.522

Half time 82.5 BPM · double time 330 BPM. Every row is one beat (363.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. See‐SawPink FloydC major165BPM
  2. A Pair Of Brown EyesThe PoguesC major165BPM
  3. Don’t Forget to RememberBee GeesC major165BPM
  4. Can’t Get It Out of My HeadElectric Light OrchestraC major165BPM
  5. Stairway to HeavenLed ZeppelinC major165BPM
  6. Let My Love Open the DoorPete TownshendC major165BPM
  7. Mein Herz brenntRammsteinC major166BPM
  8. RococoArcade FireC major166BPM
  9. Seaside RendezvousQueenC major166BPM
  10. Learning to FlyPink FloydC major166BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 165 BPMC major at 160–169 BPMThe Cranberries

MusicBrainz collapses 106 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3bbeb4e3-ab6d-460d-bfc5-de49e4251061.