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The Police · Synchronicity

Wrapped Around Your Finger

Wrapped Around Your Finger is in A minor at 128.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

128 BPM · Allegromedian of 231 analyses · 128–128.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
231people who ran the extractor
One beat
468.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.53dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.491Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.25Essentia'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

231 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 231 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 128.1 BPM one beat lasts 468.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.1 ms and a dotted eighth 351.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 256.2. 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 6.53 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 0.491 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 128 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41873.50.53
Half note2936.81.07
Dotted quarter1.5702.61.42
Quarter note (one beat)1468.42.13
Quarter triplet0.667312.33.2
Dotted eighth0.75351.32.85
Eighth note0.5234.24.27
Eighth triplet0.333156.16.41
Dotted sixteenth0.375175.65.69
Sixteenth note0.25117.18.54
Sixteenth triplet0.16778.112.81
Thirty-second note0.12558.517.08

Half time 64.1 BPM · double time 256.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (468.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The Edge of GloryLady GagaA minor128BPM
  2. War MachineAC/DCA minor128BPM
  3. The Other SideJason DeruloA minor128BPM
  4. Fn Pigdeadmau5A minor128BPM
  5. Drinking from the BottleCalvin Harris feat. Tinie TempahA minor128BPM
  6. Speak to Me / Breathe in the AirPink FloydA minor128BPM
  7. Love on the RocksNeil DiamondA minor129BPM
  8. OrionMetallicaA minor129BPM
  9. BreathePink FloydA minor129BPM
  10. Picture ThisBlondieA minor129BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 128 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMThe Police

MusicBrainz collapses 57 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6438c6b1-f956-4d58-9cc4-227c6d0d7d8a.