TempoPeek

Eminem featuring Dido · The Marshall Mathers LP

Stan

Stan is in E major at 161.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

162 BPM · Vivacemedian of 277 analyses · 161.6–161.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
277people who ran the extractor
One beat
371.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.44dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.964Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.567Essentia'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

277 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 277 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 161.7 BPM one beat lasts 371.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.8 ms and a dotted eighth 278.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 80.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 323.4. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.44 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 0.964 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 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 162 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41484.20.67
Half note2742.11.35
Dotted quarter1.5556.61.8
Quarter note (one beat)1371.12.7
Quarter triplet0.667247.44.04
Dotted eighth0.75278.33.59
Eighth note0.5185.55.39
Eighth triplet0.333123.78.08
Dotted sixteenth0.375139.17.19
Sixteenth note0.2592.810.78
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.816.17
Thirty-second note0.12546.421.56

Half time 80.9 BPM · double time 323.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (371.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. StanEminem feat. Elton JohnE♭ major162BPM

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. La Femme d’argentAirE major162BPM
  2. Ebony and IvoryPaul McCartney & Stevie WonderE major162BPM
  3. She Looks So Perfect5 Seconds of SummerE major162BPM
  4. Party Out of BoundsThe B‐52sE major162BPM
  5. SoupBlind MelonE major162BPM
  6. Love So RightBee GeesE major162BPM
  7. Honey Don’tThe BeatlesE major163BPM
  8. This Is a CallFoo FightersE major164BPM
  9. Where Is My Mind?PixiesE major164BPM
  10. All This and Heaven TooFlorence + the MachineE major164BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 162 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 162 BPME major at 160–169 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 60d2246d-2761-4e1f-b30b-2784f00565b1.