Eminem feat. Nate Dogg · The Eminem Show
Till I Collapse
Till I Collapse is in C sharp minor at 85.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
86 BPM · Andantemedian of 147 analyses · 85.6–85.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 87%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 700.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.42dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.893Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.829Essentia'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. Most of them — 87% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 85.7 BPM one beat lasts 700.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 175 ms and a dotted eighth 525.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 171.4. 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 4.42 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 0.893 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 C sharp 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 C♯ minor
Each of these differs from C♯ 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 value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2800.5 | 0.36 |
| Half note | 2 | 1400.2 | 0.71 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1050.2 | 0.95 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 700.1 | 1.43 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 466.7 | 2.14 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 525.1 | 1.9 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 350.1 | 2.86 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 233.4 | 4.29 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 262.5 | 3.81 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 175 | 5.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 116.7 | 8.57 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 87.5 | 11.43 |
Half time 42.9 BPM · double time 171.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (700.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Light SpeedDr. Dre featuring HittmanC♯ minor86BPM
- Next GirlThe Black KeysC♯ minor86BPM
- RenegadeJay‐Z feat. EminemC♯ minor85BPM
- Jesus to a ChildGeorge MichaelC♯ minor87BPM
- Oh MotherChristina AguileraC♯ minor87BPM
- What Up Gangsta50 CentC♯ minor83BPM
- Down SlowMobyC♯ minor82BPM
- A Baltimore Love Thing50 CentC♯ minor81BPM
- Hard Habit to BreakChicagoC♯ minor81BPM
- Freddie’s DeadCurtis MayfieldC♯ minor91BPM
Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 86 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 86 BPMC♯ minor at 80–89 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 58ba910b-4762-4c76-99bf-02031e11dd94.