TempoPeek

The Black Eyed Peas · Elephunk

Hands Up

Hands Up is in B minor at 87 beats per minute.

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Tempo

87 BPM · Andantemedian of 199 analyses · 87–87 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
88%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
199people who ran the extractor
One beat
689.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.87Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.609Essentia'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

199 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 88% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 199 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 87 BPM one beat lasts 689.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 172.4 ms and a dotted eighth 517.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 174. 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 3 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 0.87 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 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 87 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42758.60.36
Half note21379.30.73
Dotted quarter1.51034.50.97
Quarter note (one beat)1689.71.45
Quarter triplet0.667459.82.18
Dotted eighth0.75517.21.93
Eighth note0.5344.82.9
Eighth triplet0.333229.94.35
Dotted sixteenth0.375258.63.87
Sixteenth note0.25172.45.8
Sixteenth triplet0.167114.98.7
Thirty-second note0.12586.211.6

Half time 43.5 BPM · double time 174 BPM. Every row is one beat (689.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Alone Again OrLoveB minor87BPM
  2. 10 BandsDrakeB minor87BPM
  3. Miss IndependentKelly ClarksonB minor88BPM
  4. Heaven HelpLenny KravitzB minor86BPM
  5. GrindAlice in ChainsB minor89BPM
  6. I Can’t Tell You WhyEaglesB minor85BPM
  7. Havana AffairRamonesB minor89BPM
  8. The Show Must Go OnQueenB minor84BPM
  9. StrangersPortisheadB minor84BPM
  10. Locked UpAkonB minor90BPM

Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 87 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B minorAll songs at 87 BPMB minor at 80–89 BPMThe Black Eyed Peas

MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id db662ced-ef5e-400f-b373-abd6d8b24d24.