TempoPeek

The Smashing Pumpkins · Benefit With Beautiful People

Eye

Eye is in B major at 156.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

156 BPM · Vivacemedian of 130 analyses · 156.4–156.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
130people who ran the extractor
One beat
383.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.23dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.905Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.438Essentia'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

130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 156.4 BPM one beat lasts 383.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 95.9 ms and a dotted eighth 287.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 78.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 312.8. A score would mark that Vivace, 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 3.23 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 0.905 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 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 156 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41534.50.65
Half note2767.31.3
Dotted quarter1.5575.41.74
Quarter note (one beat)1383.62.61
Quarter triplet0.667255.83.91
Dotted eighth0.75287.73.48
Eighth note0.5191.85.21
Eighth triplet0.333127.97.82
Dotted sixteenth0.375143.96.95
Sixteenth note0.2595.910.43
Sixteenth triplet0.16763.915.64
Thirty-second note0.1254820.85

Half time 78.2 BPM · double time 312.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (383.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. CataractsThriceB major155BPM
  2. November RainGuns N’ RosesB major155BPM
  3. People Need LoveABBAB major155BPM
  4. Song for the AskingSimon & GarfunkelB major154BPM
  5. Whatcha See Is Whatcha GetThe DramaticsB major153BPM
  6. Skinny LoveBon IverB major153BPM
  7. You Found MeThe FrayB major152BPM
  8. Don’t Let Me DownThe Chainsmokers feat. DayaB major162BPM
  9. I’m YoursJason MrazB major151BPM
  10. Hate & WarThe ClashB major151BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 156 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 156 BPMB major at 150–159 BPMThe Smashing Pumpkins

MusicBrainz collapses 78 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9248dff2-5c21-4fcf-a716-636bc58cdc81.