Yes · Going for the One
Wonderous Stories
Wonderous Stories is in E major at 140.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
141 BPM · Allegromedian of 189 analyses · 139.2–140.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 189people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 426.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 444.1Hz · +16 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.35dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.642Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.962Essentia'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
189 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 189 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 139.2 to 140.9 BPM.
At 140.7 BPM one beat lasts 426.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.6 ms and a dotted eighth 319.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 281.4. 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 4.35 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 0.642 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 141 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1705.8 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 852.9 | 1.17 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 639.7 | 1.56 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 426.4 | 2.34 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 284.3 | 3.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 319.8 | 3.13 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 213.2 | 4.69 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 142.1 | 7.04 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 159.9 | 6.25 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 106.6 | 9.38 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71.1 | 14.07 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.3 | 18.76 |
Half time 70.4 BPM · double time 281.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (426.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Right ProfileThe ClashE major141BPM
- RioDuran DuranE major141BPM
- Good Girls5 Seconds of SummerE major141BPM
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- ShatteredThe Rolling StonesE major140BPM
- Come AliveFoo FightersE major140BPM
- Turn to StoneElectric Light OrchestraE major141BPM
- Ordinary WorldDuran DuranE major140BPM
- MelissaThe Allman Brothers BandE major140BPM
- Para qué la vidaEnrique IglesiasE major140BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 141 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 141 BPME major at 140–149 BPMYes
MusicBrainz collapses 30 recording ids into this one. Recording id c69d055d-74ad-4ff7-9f0e-e89a4c9762ec.