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Black Eyed Peas fea. Macy Gray · Bridging the Gap

Request + Line / Empire Strikes Black

Request + Line / Empire Strikes Black is in A minor at 101.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

102 BPM · Andantemedian of 127 analyses · 101.4–101.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
127people who ran the extractor
One beat
591.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
11.51dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.828Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.373Essentia'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

127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 101.5 BPM one beat lasts 591.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 147.8 ms and a dotted eighth 443.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 203. 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 11.51 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 0.828 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 102 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42364.50.42
Half note21182.30.85
Dotted quarter1.5886.71.13
Quarter note (one beat)1591.11.69
Quarter triplet0.667394.12.54
Dotted eighth0.75443.32.26
Eighth note0.5295.63.38
Eighth triplet0.3331975.08
Dotted sixteenth0.375221.74.51
Sixteenth note0.25147.86.77
Sixteenth triplet0.16798.510.15
Thirty-second note0.12573.913.53

Half time 50.8 BPM · double time 203 BPM. Every row is one beat (591.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. CandelaBuena Vista Social ClubA minor102BPM
  2. Theme From “Rawhide”Blues BrothersA minor101BPM
  3. You to Me Are EverythingThe Real ThingA minor102BPM
  4. If You Want Me to StayThe Red Hot Chili PeppersA minor101BPM
  5. Ridiculous ThoughtsThe CranberriesA minor103BPM
  6. The Downward SpiralNine Inch NailsA minor101BPM
  7. Here Comes the HotstepperIni KamozeA minor100BPM
  8. Creeping DeathMetallicaA minor100BPM
  9. Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s HeadGorillazA minor100BPM
  10. 2 Many HoesJay‐ZA minor103BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 102 BPMA minor at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 037091b3-5e7c-4b89-9e63-18c8c21155ca.