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Nasty Naughty Boy

Nasty Naughty Boy is in C minor at 75.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

75 BPM · Adagiomedian of 143 analyses · 75.2–75.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
143people who ran the extractor
One beat
797.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.17dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.768Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1Essentia'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 minor, a key signature of 3 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 75.2 BPM one beat lasts 797.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 199.5 ms and a dotted eighth 598.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 37.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 150.4. A score would mark that Adagio, 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 5.17 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 0.768 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 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 75 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note43191.50.31
Half note21595.70.63
Dotted quarter1.51196.80.84
Quarter note (one beat)1797.91.25
Quarter triplet0.667531.91.88
Dotted eighth0.75598.41.67
Eighth note0.5398.92.51
Eighth triplet0.3332663.76
Dotted sixteenth0.375299.23.34
Sixteenth note0.25199.55.01
Sixteenth triplet0.1671337.52
Thirty-second note0.12599.710.03

Half time 37.6 BPM · double time 150.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (797.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Forever Yellow SkiesThe CranberriesC minor73BPM
  2. Don’t Lose My NumberPhil CollinsC minor81BPM
  3. Long & LostFlorence + the MachineC minor83BPM
  4. Spend Some TimeEminem feat. Obie Trice, Stat Quo & 50 CentC minor84BPM
  5. SolarMiles Davis All StarsC minor84BPM
  6. Le BalletCéline DionC minor84BPM
  7. DimensionScannerC minor85BPM
  8. Ground on DownBen HarperC minor85BPM
  9. Bitches & SistersJay‐ZC minor87BPM
  10. You and Your FriendDire StraitsC minor87BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 75 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 75 BPMChristina Aguilera

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 57c7cb17-29df-43d7-bbf2-1cef782144d6.