Rage Against the Machine · Evil Empire
People of the Sun
People of the Sun is in C major at 94.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
94 BPM · Andantemedian of 128 analyses · 94.2–95.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 67%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 128people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 636.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.94dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.913Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.08Essentia'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 — 67% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no 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 94.3 BPM one beat lasts 636.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 159.1 ms and a dotted eighth 477.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 188.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 cents above 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 3.94 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 0.913 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 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 94 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2545.1 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1272.5 | 0.79 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 954.4 | 1.05 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 636.3 | 1.57 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 424.2 | 2.36 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 477.2 | 2.1 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 318.1 | 3.14 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 212.1 | 4.72 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 238.6 | 4.19 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 159.1 | 6.29 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 106 | 9.43 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 79.5 | 12.57 |
Half time 47.2 BPM · double time 188.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (636.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Air Near My FingersThe White StripesC major94BPM
- JackassGreen DayC major95BPM
- Slide AwayOasisC major95BPM
- Living in the Real WorldBlondieC major94BPM
- TryNelly FurtadoC major94BPM
- BlackbirdThe BeatlesC major94BPM
- OneJohnny CashC major94BPM
- Sticky SweetMötley CrüeC major95BPM
- UntitledThe CureC major95BPM
- Heart of StoneThe Rolling StonesC major95BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 94 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 94 BPMC major at 90–99 BPMRage Against the Machine
MusicBrainz collapses 62 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9d0e7c62-d725-4fd0-90ff-28aae40dd9bc.