Bloodhound Gang · Hooray for Boobies

The Ballad of Chasey Lain

The Ballad of Chasey Lain is in C sharp minor at 134 beats per minute.

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Tempo

134 BPM · Allegromedian of 227 analyses · 116.5–134.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
85%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
227people who ran the extractor
One beat
447.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.19dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.958Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.155Essentia'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

227 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 85% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 227 readings; 86% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 116.5 to 134.4 BPM.

At 134 BPM one beat lasts 447.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.9 ms and a dotted eighth 335.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67 BPM, counted twice as fast 268. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.19 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 0.958 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 sharp 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 C♯ minor

Each of these differs from C♯ 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 134 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note417910.56
Half note2895.51.12
Dotted quarter1.5671.61.49
Quarter note (one beat)1447.82.23
Quarter triplet0.667298.53.35
Dotted eighth0.75335.82.98
Eighth note0.5223.94.47
Eighth triplet0.333149.36.7
Dotted sixteenth0.375167.95.96
Sixteenth note0.25111.98.93
Sixteenth triplet0.16774.613.4
Thirty-second note0.1255617.87

Half time 67 BPM · double time 268 BPM. Every row is one beat (447.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Lord of This WorldBlack SabbathC♯ minor135BPM
  2. Face to Face (Cosmo Vitelli remix)Daft PunkC♯ minor135BPM
  3. FaintLinkin ParkC♯ minor135BPM
  4. Bigmouth Strikes AgainThe SmithsC♯ minor135BPM
  5. Master TeacherErykah BaduC♯ minor136BPM
  6. Pagan PoetryBjörkC♯ minor132BPM
  7. UnchainedVan HalenC♯ minor136BPM
  8. Sabbath Bloody SabbathBlack SabbathC♯ minor137BPM
  9. You and Whose Army?RadioheadC♯ minor137BPM
  10. Moments in LoveArt of NoiseC♯ minor138BPM

Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 134 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 134 BPMC♯ minor at 130–139 BPMBloodhound Gang

MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3fecfcee-0f11-4317-9a4d-54156766f375.