TempoPeek

Arctic Monkeys · Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

From the Ritz to the Rubble

From the Ritz to the Rubble is in E minor at 172.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

172 BPM · Vivacemedian of 164 analyses · 172.3–178.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
45%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
164people who ran the extractor
One beat
348.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.68dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.875Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.043Essentia'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

164 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 45% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 164 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 172.3 to 178.2 BPM.

At 172.3 BPM one beat lasts 348.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 87.1 ms and a dotted eighth 261.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 86.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 344.6. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 2.68 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 0.875 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 minor; 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 minor

Each of these differs from E minor 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 172 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41392.90.72
Half note2696.51.44
Dotted quarter1.5522.31.91
Quarter note (one beat)1348.22.87
Quarter triplet0.667232.24.31
Dotted eighth0.75261.23.83
Eighth note0.5174.15.74
Eighth triplet0.333116.18.62
Dotted sixteenth0.375130.67.66
Sixteenth note0.2587.111.49
Sixteenth triplet0.1675817.23
Thirty-second note0.12543.522.97

Half time 86.2 BPM · double time 344.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (348.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Crimson and CloverTommy James & the ShondellsE minor172BPM
  2. Give in to MeMichael JacksonE minor172BPM
  3. Don’t Bother MeThe BeatlesE minor172BPM
  4. Down Poison3 Doors DownE minor172BPM
  5. I Love You Much Too MuchSantanaE minor172BPM
  6. Shock to the SystemBilly IdolE minor167BPM
  7. Who Makes You FeelDidoE minor167BPM
  8. Whole Lotta LoveLed ZeppelinE minor178BPM
  9. BlackoutScorpionsE minor178BPM
  10. That’s AllGenesisE minor178BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 172 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 172 BPME minor at 170–179 BPMArctic Monkeys

MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6c38a025-0a0b-46e7-bd90-460a82feae70.