InsightsTempo Comparison

Tempo Comparison

Name: The Beatles Tag Database
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

How the Beatles' tempo evolved - average BPM by album, tempo categories by year, and songwriter tempo fingerprints.

At a glance

Slowest: “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” at 3 BPM. Fastest: “Long Tall Sally” at 180 BPM. Median tempo across 220 measured songs is 108 BPM.

Slowest 5 + fastest 5(11 rows)

Song	BPM	Tempo
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	3	Upbeat
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	3	Tempo change
The Long and Winding Road	63	Slow
Because	64	Slow
Something	66	Slow
…	…	…
Matchbox	160	Very fast
Slow Down	168	Very fast
Can't Buy Me Love	168	Very fast
Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby	170	Very fast
Long Tall Sally	180	Very fast

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