The Black Eyed Peas · The E•N•D
Out of My Head
Out of My Head is in C sharp minor at 120.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 166 analyses · 120.9–120.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 166people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 496.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 452.1Hz · +47 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.41dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.97Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.489Essentia'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
166 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 166 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 120.9 BPM one beat lasts 496.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.1 ms and a dotted eighth 372.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 241.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 452.1 Hz, which is 47 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.41 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 0.97 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 sharp 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 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1985.1 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 992.6 | 1.01 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 744.4 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 496.3 | 2.02 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 330.9 | 3.02 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 372.2 | 2.69 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 248.1 | 4.03 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 165.4 | 6.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186.1 | 5.37 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.1 | 8.06 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.7 | 12.09 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62 | 16.12 |
Half time 60.5 BPM · double time 241.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (496.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Rain When I DieAlice in ChainsC♯ minor121BPM
- Groove Is in the HeartDeee‐LiteC♯ minor122BPM
- Head Over HeelsABBAC♯ minor122BPM
- All I’ve Got to DoThe BeatlesC♯ minor120BPM
- Harlem ShuffleThe Rolling StonesC♯ minor122BPM
- MapsMaroon 5C♯ minor120BPM
- Till It Happens to YouCorinne Bailey RaeC♯ minor120BPM
- The BrainwasherDaft PunkC♯ minor120BPM
- ArrivalDaft PunkC♯ minor120BPM
- It’s a MiracleCulture ClubC♯ minor119BPM
Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 121 BPMC♯ minor at 120–129 BPMThe Black Eyed Peas
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 2d9af4c2-38a6-48fa-ae2f-234204caa603.