TempoPeek

The Rolling Stones · Their Satanic Majesties Request

The Lantern

The Lantern is in E major at 97.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

98 BPM · Andantemedian of 154 analyses · 97.7–99 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
154people who ran the extractor
One beat
612.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
445.1Hz · +20 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.39dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.567Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.917Essentia'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

154 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 154 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 97.7 to 99 BPM.

At 97.9 BPM one beat lasts 612.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 153.2 ms and a dotted eighth 459.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49 BPM, counted twice as fast 195.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.1 Hz, which is 20 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 4.39 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 0.567 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 98 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42451.50.41
Half note21225.70.82
Dotted quarter1.5919.31.09
Quarter note (one beat)1612.91.63
Quarter triplet0.667408.62.45
Dotted eighth0.75459.72.18
Eighth note0.5306.43.26
Eighth triplet0.333204.34.9
Dotted sixteenth0.375229.84.35
Sixteenth note0.25153.26.53
Sixteenth triplet0.167102.19.79
Thirty-second note0.12576.613.05

Half time 49 BPM · double time 195.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (612.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Rap SongBlack Eyed Peas fea. WyclefE major98BPM
  2. Man Out of TimeElvis Costello & The AttractionsE major98BPM
  3. Song for the ManBeastie BoysE major98BPM
  4. Rehumanize YourselfThe PoliceE major99BPM
  5. South SideMobyE major97BPM
  6. The FlameCheap TrickE major97BPM
  7. Hey, Soul SisterTrainE major97BPM
  8. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)Bee GeesE major97BPM
  9. QuietSmashing PumpkinsE major99BPM
  10. I Wanna Be Your ManThe BeatlesE major99BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 98 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 98 BPME major at 90–99 BPMThe Rolling Stones

MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id 65c76da6-ecb0-424d-b913-f8dca8aefe42.