TempoPeek

Beastie Boys · Paul’s Boutique

Shake Your Rump

Shake Your Rump is in B flat major at 103.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

103 BPM · Andantemedian of 210 analyses · 103.1–103.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
210people who ran the extractor
One beat
582milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.76dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.694Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.209Essentia'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

210 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 210 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 103.1 BPM one beat lasts 582 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 145.5 ms and a dotted eighth 436.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 206.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 3.76 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 0.694 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 B flat major; 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 B♭ major

Each of these differs from B♭ major 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 103 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42327.80.43
Half note21163.90.86
Dotted quarter1.5872.91.15
Quarter note (one beat)15821.72
Quarter triplet0.6673882.58
Dotted eighth0.75436.52.29
Eighth note0.52913.44
Eighth triplet0.3331945.15
Dotted sixteenth0.375218.24.58
Sixteenth note0.25145.56.87
Sixteenth triplet0.1679710.31
Thirty-second note0.12572.713.75

Half time 51.6 BPM · double time 206.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (582 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Burning Down the HouseTalking HeadsB♭ major103BPM
  2. Girl From the North CountryBob DylanB♭ major103BPM
  3. OverkillShotgun MessiahB♭ major103BPM
  4. DownerNirvanaB♭ major103BPM
  5. BootyliciousDestiny’s ChildB♭ major103BPM
  6. I Get WeakBelinda CarlisleB♭ major103BPM
  7. The Humpty DanceDigital UndergroundB♭ major104BPM
  8. Video PhoneBeyoncéB♭ major104BPM
  9. Nothin’ on YouB.o.B feat. Bruno MarsB♭ major104BPM
  10. I Took a Pill in Ibiza (SeeB remix)Mike PosnerB♭ major102BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 103 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 103 BPMB♭ major at 100–109 BPMBeastie Boys

MusicBrainz collapses 37 recording ids into this one. Recording id bae3b5f2-f939-4232-89f5-91ba49672ad5.