Eminem · The Marshall Mathers LP
Drug Ballad
Drug Ballad is in D minor at 104.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
105 BPM · Andantemedian of 142 analyses · 104.8–104.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 54%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 142people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 572.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.75dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.96Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.738Essentia'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
142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 54% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 104.8 BPM one beat lasts 572.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 143.1 ms and a dotted eighth 429.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 209.6. 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 3.75 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 0.96 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 D 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 D minor
Each of these differs from D 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 105 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2290.1 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1145 | 0.87 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 858.8 | 1.16 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 572.5 | 1.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 381.7 | 2.62 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 429.4 | 2.33 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 286.3 | 3.49 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 190.8 | 5.24 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 214.7 | 4.66 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 143.1 | 6.99 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 95.4 | 10.48 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 71.6 | 13.97 |
Half time 52.4 BPM · double time 209.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (572.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- I Like DirtRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor105BPM
- FastloveGeorge MichaelD minor104BPM
- WellCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandD minor104BPM
- It’s Too LateCarole KingD minor104BPM
- Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2Pink FloydD minor104BPM
- Another Part of MeMichael JacksonD minor106BPM
- The Happiest Days of Our LivesPink FloydD minor104BPM
- You Know I’m No GoodAmy WinehouseD minor104BPM
- Wheel in the SkyJourneyD minor106BPM
- I Missed AgainPhil CollinsD minor106BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 105 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMEminem
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0354c8d4-4f17-423c-9b31-3dd9b6f5e26f.