TempoPeek

Willie Nelson · Always on My Mind

Always on My Mind

Always on My Mind is in D major at 146.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

147 BPM · Allegromedian of 169 analyses · 146.7–147.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
169people who ran the extractor
One beat
408.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.8Hz · +15 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.25dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.463Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.924Essentia'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

169 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 169 readings; 89% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 146.9 BPM one beat lasts 408.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.1 ms and a dotted eighth 306.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 293.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.8 Hz, which is 15 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 5.25 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 0.463 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 D 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 147 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41633.80.61
Half note2816.91.22
Dotted quarter1.5612.71.63
Quarter note (one beat)1408.42.45
Quarter triplet0.667272.33.67
Dotted eighth0.75306.33.26
Eighth note0.5204.24.9
Eighth triplet0.333136.17.35
Dotted sixteenth0.375153.26.53
Sixteenth note0.25102.19.79
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.114.69
Thirty-second note0.12551.119.59

Half time 73.5 BPM · double time 293.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (408.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Always on My MindPet Shop BoysG major125BPM

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. Love Will Tear Us ApartJoy DivisionD major147BPM
  2. Annie’s SongJohn DenverD major147BPM
  3. Tiny VesselsDeath Cab for CutieD major147BPM
  4. Eon Blue ApocalypseToolD major147BPM
  5. Fake Plastic TreesRadioheadD major147BPM
  6. Soul LoveDavid BowieD major147BPM
  7. Out of TearsThe Rolling StonesD major147BPM
  8. Rockaria!Electric Light OrchestraD major147BPM
  9. Closer to the HeartRushD major146BPM
  10. Sally MacLennaneThe PoguesD major148BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 147 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 147 BPMD major at 140–149 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 86 recording ids into this one. Recording id 19d0be93-fdbc-4510-8a5e-c849967a927f.