TempoPeek

50 Cent · The Massacre

Position of Power

Position of Power is in A minor at 85.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

86 BPM · Andantemedian of 134 analyses · 85.9–85.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
134people who ran the extractor
One beat
698.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.39dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.949Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.633Essentia'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

134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 85.9 BPM one beat lasts 698.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 174.6 ms and a dotted eighth 523.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43 BPM, counted twice as fast 171.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 4.39 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 0.949 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 86 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42793.90.36
Half note213970.72
Dotted quarter1.51047.70.95
Quarter note (one beat)1698.51.43
Quarter triplet0.667465.72.15
Dotted eighth0.75523.91.91
Eighth note0.5349.22.86
Eighth triplet0.333232.84.3
Dotted sixteenth0.375261.93.82
Sixteenth note0.25174.65.73
Sixteenth triplet0.167116.48.59
Thirty-second note0.12587.311.45

Half time 43 BPM · double time 171.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (698.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. PrimaryThe CureA minor86BPM
  2. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)The DoorsA minor86BPM
  3. Keep Ya Head Up2PacA minor86BPM
  4. The Train, Part 2 (Sir Lucious Left Foot Saves the Day)Big Boi feat. Sam ChrisA minor86BPM
  5. Just Don’t Give a FuckEminemA minor85BPM
  6. Stressed Outtwenty one pilotsA minor85BPM
  7. Princess of ChinaColdplayA minor85BPM
  8. To Live and Die in L.A.Makaveli featuring Val YoungA minor87BPM
  9. Deep in the HoleAC/DCA minor87BPM
  10. RightDavid BowieA minor87BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 86 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 86 BPMA minor at 80–89 BPM50 Cent

MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id f73d3b2d-3231-4cb2-bdd2-d614e7882f23.