The Smiths · The Queen Is Dead
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out is in E major at 136.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 224 analyses · 136.2–136.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 224people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 440.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.97dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.934Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.183Essentia'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
224 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 224 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 136.3 BPM one beat lasts 440.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.1 ms and a dotted eighth 330.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 272.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.97 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 0.934 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 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1760.8 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 880.4 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 660.3 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 440.2 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 293.5 | 3.41 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 330.2 | 3.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 220.1 | 4.54 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.7 | 6.82 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.1 | 6.06 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.1 | 9.09 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.4 | 13.63 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55 | 18.17 |
Half time 68.2 BPM · double time 272.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (440.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Learn to FlyFoo FightersE major136BPM
- Shot of LoveAC/DCE major136BPM
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- EchoesPink FloydE major136BPM
- The Spirit of RadioRushE major136BPM
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt CheapAC/DCE major135BPM
- Living After MidnightJudas PriestE major135BPM
- Scared to Be LonelyMartin Garrix & Dua LipaE major137BPM
- Kisses of FireABBAE major135BPM
- Day TripperThe BeatlesE major138BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 136 BPME major at 130–139 BPMThe Smiths
MusicBrainz collapses 52 recording ids into this one. Recording id f87a0c54-60ef-4db1-9628-96677504692d.