Fatboy Slim · You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
The Rockafeller Skank
The Rockafeller Skank is in C minor at 152.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
153 BPM · Allegromedian of 225 analyses · 152.5–152.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 63%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 225people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 393.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.32dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.9Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.165Essentia'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
225 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 63% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 225 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 152.6 BPM one beat lasts 393.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.3 ms and a dotted eighth 294.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 305.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 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 2.32 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 0.9 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 153 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1572.7 | 0.64 |
| Half note | 2 | 786.4 | 1.27 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 589.8 | 1.7 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 393.2 | 2.54 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 262.1 | 3.81 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 294.9 | 3.39 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 196.6 | 5.09 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 131.1 | 7.63 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 147.4 | 6.78 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 98.3 | 10.17 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65.5 | 15.26 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.1 | 20.35 |
Half time 76.3 BPM · double time 305.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (393.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Hanging on the TelephoneBlondieC minor152BPM
- MustaphaQueenC minor152BPM
- A New Machine, Part 1Pink FloydC minor151BPM
- SkyfallAdeleC minor151BPM
- High SpeedColdplayC minor155BPM
- Breakfast in AmericaSupertrampC minor151BPM
- Sell YourselfCage the ElephantC minor155BPM
- High HopesPink FloydC minor150BPM
- Be With YouBeyoncéC minor150BPM
- Heat MiserMassive AttackC minor150BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 153 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 153 BPMC minor at 150–159 BPMFatboy Slim
MusicBrainz collapses 42 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4e5f16e7-330e-4459-aa30-71a7aabac392.