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Hollaback Girl
Hollaback Girl is in E flat minor at 110 beats per minute.
Tempo
110 BPM · Moderatomedian of 220 analyses · 110–110 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 220people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 545.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.11dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.969Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.456Essentia'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
220 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 220 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 110 BPM one beat lasts 545.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 136.4 ms and a dotted eighth 409.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55 BPM, counted twice as fast 220. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 3.11 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 0.969 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 E 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 E♭ minor
Each of these differs from E♭ 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 110 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2181.8 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1090.9 | 0.92 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 818.2 | 1.22 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 545.5 | 1.83 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 363.6 | 2.75 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 409.1 | 2.44 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 272.7 | 3.67 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 181.8 | 5.5 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 204.5 | 4.89 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 136.4 | 7.33 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 90.9 | 11 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 68.2 | 14.67 |
Half time 55 BPM · double time 220 BPM. Every row is one beat (545.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Way You Look TonightMichael BubléE♭ minor110BPM
- Instant CrushDaft Punk feat. Julian CasablancasE♭ minor110BPM
- GreaseFrankie ValliE♭ minor110BPM
- DumbNirvanaE♭ minor110BPM
- D.S.Michael JacksonE♭ minor109BPM
- Play With FireThe Rolling StonesE♭ minor109BPM
- Do You Know, Do You Care?Phil CollinsE♭ minor111BPM
- Tabloid JunkieMichael JacksonE♭ minor111BPM
- Natural BluesMobyE♭ minor108BPM
- Lighten UpBeastie BoysE♭ minor108BPM
Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 110 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 110 BPME♭ minor at 110–119 BPMGwen Stefani
MusicBrainz collapses 30 recording ids into this one. Recording id e7e7c3b8-0b9f-4c13-812a-8ff5516ab5f5.