Bad Company · Bad Company
Rock Steady
Rock Steady is in A minor at 99.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
100 BPM · Andantemedian of 181 analyses · 99.4–112.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 69%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 181people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 603milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.59dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.795Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.207Essentia'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
181 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 69% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 181 readings; 70% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 99.4 to 112.3 BPM.
At 99.5 BPM one beat lasts 603 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 150.8 ms and a dotted eighth 452.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 199. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.59 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 0.795 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 A 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A 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 100 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2412.1 | 0.41 |
| Half note | 2 | 1206 | 0.83 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 904.5 | 1.11 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 603 | 1.66 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 402 | 2.49 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 452.3 | 2.21 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 301.5 | 3.32 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 201 | 4.98 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 226.1 | 4.42 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 150.8 | 6.63 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 100.5 | 9.95 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 75.4 | 13.27 |
Half time 49.8 BPM · double time 199 BPM. Every row is one beat (603 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- I’m No AngelDidoA minor100BPM
- Let’s Get HighDr. Dre featuring Hittman, Kurupt & Ms. RoqA minor99BPM
- This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms RaceFall Out BoyA minor100BPM
- House of DalmoreJo BlankenburgA minor100BPM
- Playing With GirlsAC/DCA minor100BPM
- Too HighStevie WonderA minor99BPM
- BailamosEnrique IglesiasA minor100BPM
- Stupid GirlsP!nkA minor100BPM
- Interstellar OverdrivePink FloydA minor100BPM
- Africa BambaSantanaA minor100BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 100 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 100 BPMA minor at 90–99 BPMBad Company
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id e15479c1-398c-45a5-974e-4bdb189a16bf.