TempoPeek

Black Eyed Peas fea. Kim Hill · Bridging the Gap

Hot

Hot is in C major at 96 beats per minute.

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Tempo

96 BPM · Andantemedian of 143 analyses · 96–96 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
143people who ran the extractor
One beat
625milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.91dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.912Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.714Essentia'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

143 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 143 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 96 BPM one beat lasts 625 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 156.3 ms and a dotted eighth 468.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48 BPM, counted twice as fast 192. 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 4.91 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 0.912 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 96 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note425000.4
Half note212500.8
Dotted quarter1.5937.51.07
Quarter note (one beat)16251.6
Quarter triplet0.667416.72.4
Dotted eighth0.75468.82.13
Eighth note0.5312.53.2
Eighth triplet0.333208.34.8
Dotted sixteenth0.375234.44.27
Sixteenth note0.25156.36.4
Sixteenth triplet0.167104.29.6
Thirty-second note0.12578.112.8

Half time 48 BPM · double time 192 BPM. Every row is one beat (625 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. HotAvril LavigneA♭ major145BPM

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

  1. So Far (It’s Alright)The 1975C major96BPM
  2. Be Like That3 Doors DownC major96BPM
  3. JinxGreen DayC major96BPM
  4. Lost for WordsPink FloydC major96BPM
  5. I Just Don’t Know What to Do With MyselfThe White StripesC major96BPM
  6. 5/4GorillazC major96BPM
  7. Like a Rolling StoneBob DylanC major96BPM
  8. First Dateblink‐182C major96BPM
  9. RegulateWarren G feat. Nate DoggC major96BPM
  10. SmileLily AllenC major96BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 96 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 96 BPMC major at 90–99 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 7b3dc635-5f5b-45b1-8060-eac2e9b2c41e.