Chumbawamba · Tubthumper
Tubthumping
Tubthumping is in A major at 103.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
104 BPM · Andantemedian of 147 analyses · 103.7–103.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 60%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 578milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.99dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.937Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.135Essentia'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
147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 60% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 103.8 BPM one beat lasts 578 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144.5 ms and a dotted eighth 433.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 207.6. 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 3.99 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 0.937 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 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 104 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2312.1 | 0.43 |
| Half note | 2 | 1156.1 | 0.87 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 867.1 | 1.15 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 578 | 1.73 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 385.4 | 2.6 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 433.5 | 2.31 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 289 | 3.46 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 192.7 | 5.19 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 216.8 | 4.61 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 144.5 | 6.92 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 96.3 | 10.38 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 72.3 | 13.84 |
Half time 51.9 BPM · double time 207.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (578 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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- Let Me Put My Love Into YouAC/DCA major104BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 104 BPMA major at 100–109 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 39 recording ids into this one. Recording id b54f79d8-f199-4d19-b8e9-7a56b62fe8ae.