TempoPeek

The Black Eyed Peas · The Beginning

Whenever

Whenever is in E major at 129.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

130 BPM · Allegromedian of 149 analyses · 129.6–129.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
149people who ran the extractor
One beat
463milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.42dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.746Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.022Essentia'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

149 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 149 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 129.6 BPM one beat lasts 463 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.7 ms and a dotted eighth 347.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 259.2. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 4.42 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 0.746 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 130 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41851.90.54
Half note2925.91.08
Dotted quarter1.5694.41.44
Quarter note (one beat)14632.16
Quarter triplet0.667308.63.24
Dotted eighth0.75347.22.88
Eighth note0.5231.54.32
Eighth triplet0.333154.36.48
Dotted sixteenth0.375173.65.76
Sixteenth note0.25115.78.64
Sixteenth triplet0.16777.212.96
Thirty-second note0.12557.917.28

Half time 64.8 BPM · double time 259.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (463 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Best of YouFoo FightersE major130BPM
  2. Down Payment BluesAC/DCE major130BPM
  3. New Star in the SkyAirE major130BPM
  4. Papa’s Got a Brand New BagJames BrownE major129BPM
  5. Punky’s DilemmaSimon & GarfunkelE major129BPM
  6. Barbie GirlAquaE major130BPM
  7. S.T.O.PDavid Guetta feat. Ryan TedderE major130BPM
  8. The Jean GenieDavid BowieE major129BPM
  9. She’s Out of My LifeMichael JacksonE major129BPM
  10. Be My BabyThe RonettesE major129BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 130 BPME major at 120–129 BPMThe Black Eyed Peas

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 104d841e-5dea-4732-88a1-e3a5efe3d2a5.