TempoPeek

The B‐52s · Wild Planet

Party Out of Bounds

Party Out of Bounds is in E major at 162 beats per minute.

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Tempo

162 BPM · Vivacemedian of 217 analyses · 161.6–162 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
217people who ran the extractor
One beat
370.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.03dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.667Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.272Essentia'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

217 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 217 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 162 BPM one beat lasts 370.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.6 ms and a dotted eighth 277.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81 BPM, counted twice as fast 324. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 4.03 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 0.667 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 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 162 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41481.50.68
Half note2740.71.35
Dotted quarter1.5555.61.8
Quarter note (one beat)1370.42.7
Quarter triplet0.667246.94.05
Dotted eighth0.75277.83.6
Eighth note0.5185.25.4
Eighth triplet0.333123.58.1
Dotted sixteenth0.375138.97.2
Sixteenth note0.2592.610.8
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.716.2
Thirty-second note0.12546.321.6

Half time 81 BPM · double time 324 BPM. Every row is one beat (370.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Ebony and IvoryPaul McCartney & Stevie WonderE major162BPM
  2. SoupBlind MelonE major162BPM
  3. StanEminem featuring DidoE major162BPM
  4. Love So RightBee GeesE major162BPM
  5. La Femme d’argentAirE major162BPM
  6. She Looks So Perfect5 Seconds of SummerE major162BPM
  7. Honey Don’tThe BeatlesE major163BPM
  8. This Is a CallFoo FightersE major164BPM
  9. Where Is My Mind?PixiesE major164BPM
  10. All This and Heaven TooFlorence + the MachineE major164BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 162 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 162 BPME major at 160–169 BPMThe B‐52s

MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6388a567-3bfc-4a75-aea9-6a2ab12aea2d.