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Ring, Ring, Ring (Ha Ha Hey) (album version)

Ring, Ring, Ring (Ha Ha Hey) (album version) is in B flat minor at 103.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

104 BPM · Andantemedian of 128 analyses · 103.9–104 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ minor5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
73%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
128people who ran the extractor
One beat
577.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.59dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.944Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.631Essentia'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

128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 73% — put it in B flat minor, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 103.9 BPM one beat lasts 577.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144.4 ms and a dotted eighth 433.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52 BPM, counted twice as fast 207.8. 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 5.59 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 0.944 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 B flat 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 B♭ minor

Each of these differs from B♭ 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 104 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42309.90.43
Half note211550.87
Dotted quarter1.5866.21.15
Quarter note (one beat)1577.51.73
Quarter triplet0.6673852.6
Dotted eighth0.75433.12.31
Eighth note0.5288.73.46
Eighth triplet0.333192.55.2
Dotted sixteenth0.375216.64.62
Sixteenth note0.25144.46.93
Sixteenth triplet0.16796.210.39
Thirty-second note0.12572.213.85

Half time 52 BPM · double time 207.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (577.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Bringing It BackBlack Eyed PeasB♭ minor104BPM
  2. Side A (Old)Danny BrownB♭ minor104BPM
  3. One DanceDrake feat. WizKid & KylaB♭ minor104BPM
  4. Fire50 Cent feat. Young Buck & Nicole ScherzingerB♭ minor104BPM
  5. NastyJanet JacksonB♭ minor104BPM
  6. Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down and Out)Otis ReddingB♭ minor104BPM
  7. My Toy Soldier50 Cent feat. Tony YayoB♭ minor104BPM
  8. If My Homie Calls2PacB♭ minor104BPM
  9. The Narrow Way, Part 2David GilmourB♭ minor103BPM
  10. Would?Alice in ChainsB♭ minor103BPM

Recordings in B flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat minorAll songs at 104 BPMB♭ minor at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 9247d705-f538-40aa-9ddb-38a6c7b06a19.