80–89 BPM · Andante

Songs at 85 BPM

One beat

705.9 ms60,000 ÷ 85

Recordings: 66at this whole tempo
Half time: 42.5BPM
Double time: 170BPM
Most used key: B♭ major7 recordings

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.

66 recordings on this site sit at 85 beats per minute once each one's analyses are reduced to their median. A score would call that Andante, by the ranges printed on the data page.

One beat lasts 705.9 milliseconds. That makes an eighth note 352.9 ms, a dotted eighth 529.4 ms and a sixteenth 176.5 ms — the delay times that will sit in time with anything at this tempo.

Half time is 42.5 BPM and double time is 170; a tempo detector that disagrees with this page by a factor of two is usually counting one of those instead.

7 of them are in B flat major, more than any other key at this tempo.

Delay times at 85 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	2823.5	0.35
Half note	2	1411.8	0.71
Dotted quarter	1.5	1058.8	0.94
Quarter note (one beat)	1	705.9	1.42
Quarter triplet	0.667	470.6	2.13
Dotted eighth	0.75	529.4	1.89
Eighth note	0.5	352.9	2.83
Eighth triplet	0.333	235.3	4.25
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	264.7	3.78
Sixteenth note	0.25	176.5	5.67
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	117.6	8.5
Thirty-second note	0.125	88.2	11.33

85 BPM, key by key

Each key links to its list at this tempo band (80–89 BPM) where there is one, and to the whole key otherwise.

The recordings

Every recording whose median tempo rounds to 85 BPM, most analysed first. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

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