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End of the Night
End of the Night is in E flat minor at 143.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
144 BPM · Allegromedian of 194 analyses · 81.4–144.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 47%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 194people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 417milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 435.7Hz · -17 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.81dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.266Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.997Essentia'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
194 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 47% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 194 readings; 79% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 81.4 to 144.3 BPM.
At 143.9 BPM one beat lasts 417 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.2 ms and a dotted eighth 312.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72 BPM, counted twice as fast 287.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.7 Hz, which is 17 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 4.81 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 0.266 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 flat 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 144 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1667.8 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 833.9 | 1.2 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 625.4 | 1.6 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 417 | 2.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 278 | 3.6 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 312.7 | 3.2 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 208.5 | 4.8 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 139 | 7.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 156.4 | 6.4 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 104.2 | 9.59 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.5 | 14.39 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.1 | 19.19 |
Half time 72 BPM · double time 287.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (417 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Midnight ShowThe KillersE♭ minor144BPM
- Four HorsemenThe ClashE♭ minor143BPM
- I Believe to My SoulRay CharlesE♭ minor143BPM
- Cemeteries of LondonColdplayE♭ minor146BPM
- Ace of SpadesMotörheadE♭ minor140BPM
- Kiss KissChris Brown feat. T‐PainE♭ minor140BPM
- Civil WarGuns N’ RosesE♭ minor140BPM
- Shanti / AshtangiMadonnaE♭ minor140BPM
- Beat ItMichael JacksonE♭ minor139BPM
- Full ThrottleThe ProdigyE♭ minor150BPM
Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 144 BPME♭ minor at 140–149 BPMThe Doors
MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id 79a2a1a8-f8f6-4a8d-ba40-1b0924590222.