“Hallelujah” – Jeff Buckley – ‘Grace’ – SPEED CHART- #1 on iTunes – American Idol’s Simon Cowell’s praises it as ‘one of the BEST RECORDINGS EVER’

March 12, 2008 Ian A Schneider
bpm graph - Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - the speed of ceremony - for Simon Cowell

bpm graph - Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - the speed of ceremony - for Simon Cowell

A performance by Jason Castro of Leonard Cohen’s ‘hallelujah’ raised this version of the Jeff Buckley version of the recorded song to the number 1 iTunes download today’s #1: the Jeff Buckley version from his album grace.

As Good as Castro was, the comment by Simon Cowell that “Hallelujah,” the Buckley version, as he praised Castro for a good try – given that he only gets a 1 minute 30 second clip, that impressed everyone.

arithmetic mean speed/average expected tempo=67.6 beats per minute

average beat=888 milliseconds.