TempoPeek

Van Halen · 1984

Girl Gone Bad

Girl Gone Bad is in A major at 151.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

152 BPM · Allegromedian of 128 analyses · 148.4–154.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
79%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
128people who ran the extractor
One beat
395.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.1Hz · +16 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.7dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.781Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.037Essentia'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

128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 59% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 148.4 to 154.4 BPM.

At 151.7 BPM one beat lasts 395.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.9 ms and a dotted eighth 296.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 303.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.1 Hz, which is 16 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 3.7 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 0.781 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 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 152 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41582.10.63
Half note27911.26
Dotted quarter1.5593.31.69
Quarter note (one beat)1395.52.53
Quarter triplet0.667263.73.79
Dotted eighth0.75296.63.37
Eighth note0.5197.85.06
Eighth triplet0.333131.87.58
Dotted sixteenth0.375148.36.74
Sixteenth note0.2598.910.11
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.915.17
Thirty-second note0.12549.420.23

Half time 75.9 BPM · double time 303.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (395.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Et je t’aime encoreCéline DionA major152BPM
  2. Girl, You Have No Faith in MedicineThe White StripesA major152BPM
  3. LolaThe KinksA major152BPM
  4. I’m With YouAvril LavigneA major152BPM
  5. SpacemanThe KillersA major152BPM
  6. Je T'Aime EncoreCéline DionA major152BPM
  7. Just Like HeavenThe CureA major151BPM
  8. In the FleshPink FloydA major152BPM
  9. SnowballedAC/DCA major152BPM
  10. Hang FireThe Rolling StonesA major152BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 152 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 152 BPMA major at 150–159 BPMVan Halen

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 79f7d771-3aa7-41e6-8df6-525fc050594a.