TempoPeek

Eminem · The Marshall Mathers LP

Criminal

Criminal is in E minor at 102 beats per minute.

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Tempo

102 BPM · Andantemedian of 147 analyses · 101.9–102 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
147people who ran the extractor
One beat
588.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.5dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.878Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.298Essentia'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

147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 102 BPM one beat lasts 588.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 147.1 ms and a dotted eighth 441.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51 BPM, counted twice as fast 204. A score would mark that Andante, 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 5.5 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 0.878 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 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E 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 102 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42352.90.43
Half note21176.50.85
Dotted quarter1.5882.41.13
Quarter note (one beat)1588.21.7
Quarter triplet0.667392.22.55
Dotted eighth0.75441.22.27
Eighth note0.5294.13.4
Eighth triplet0.333196.15.1
Dotted sixteenth0.375220.64.53
Sixteenth note0.25147.16.8
Sixteenth triplet0.1679810.2
Thirty-second note0.12573.513.6

Half time 51 BPM · double time 204 BPM. Every row is one beat (588.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. CriminalFiona AppleF minor90BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. TourniquetEvanescenceE minor102BPM
  2. Peaches & Cream112E minor102BPM
  3. Mother’s Little HelperThe Rolling StonesE minor101BPM
  4. Shining StarEarth, Wind & FireE minor103BPM
  5. Fell on Black DaysSoundgardenE minor101BPM
  6. Road Trippin’Red Hot Chili PeppersE minor101BPM
  7. Lady D’ArbanvilleCat StevensE minor103BPM
  8. My GirlAerosmithE minor103BPM
  9. FeelsCalvin Harris feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big SeanE minor101BPM
  10. The Razors EdgeAC/DCE minor101BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 102 BPME minor at 100–109 BPMEminem

MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id c66c1a38-0ba8-4ec9-be68-6221c9160530.