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Lovesong

Lovesong is in A minor at 140 beats per minute.

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Tempo

140 BPM · Allegromedian of 456 analyses · 140–140.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
456people who ran the extractor
One beat
428.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.44dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.91Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.209Essentia'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

456 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 456 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 140 BPM one beat lasts 428.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 107.1 ms and a dotted eighth 321.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70 BPM, counted twice as fast 280. 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 3.44 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 0.91 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 140 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41714.30.58
Half note2857.11.17
Dotted quarter1.5642.91.56
Quarter note (one beat)1428.62.33
Quarter triplet0.667285.73.5
Dotted eighth0.75321.43.11
Eighth note0.5214.34.67
Eighth triplet0.333142.97
Dotted sixteenth0.375160.76.22
Sixteenth note0.25107.19.33
Sixteenth triplet0.16771.414
Thirty-second note0.12553.618.67

Half time 70 BPM · double time 280 BPM. Every row is one beat (428.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. LovesongAdeleC minor117BPM

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

  1. Happiness Is a Warm GunThe BeatlesA minor140BPM
  2. VertigoU2A minor140BPM
  3. JihadShotgun MessiahA minor140BPM
  4. Cosmic LoveFlorence + the MachineA minor140BPM
  5. SehnsuchtRammsteinA minor140BPM
  6. New EyesClean Bandit feat. LizzoA minor140BPM
  7. Up the KhyberPink FloydA minor140BPM
  8. See YouDepeche ModeA minor140BPM
  9. What’s Next to the MoonAC/DCA minor140BPM
  10. Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)The DelfonicsA minor140BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 140 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 140 BPMA minor at 140–149 BPMThe Cure

MusicBrainz collapses 103 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1cb233e4-bd40-488e-b20b-1ff88cb9d27e.