Eminem · The Marshall Mathers LP
Who Knew
Who Knew is in B minor at 101.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
101 BPM · Andantemedian of 166 analyses · 101–101.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 166people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 593.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 444.9Hz · +19 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.48dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.952Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.572Essentia'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
166 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 166 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 101.1 BPM one beat lasts 593.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 148.4 ms and a dotted eighth 445.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 202.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.9 Hz, which is 19 cents above 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 5.48 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 0.952 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 B 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 101 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2373.9 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1186.9 | 0.84 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 890.2 | 1.12 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 593.5 | 1.69 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 395.6 | 2.53 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 445.1 | 2.25 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 296.7 | 3.37 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 197.8 | 5.06 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 222.6 | 4.49 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 148.4 | 6.74 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 98.9 | 10.11 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74.2 | 13.48 |
Half time 50.6 BPM · double time 202.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (593.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- Ain’t Nobody but MeSupertrampB minor102BPM
- PeacemakerGreen DayB minor99BPM
- The Watcher 2Jay‐Z feat. Dr. Dre, Rakim & Truth HurtsB minor99BPM
- Could You Be LovedBob Marley & The WailersB minor103BPM
- Word on a WingDavid BowieB minor98BPM
- Just an IllusionImaginationB minor105BPM
- Crumbling CastleKing Gizzard & the Lizard WizardB minor97BPM
- SoloClean Bandit feat. Demi LovatoB minor105BPM
- R U Mine?Arctic MonkeysB minor97BPM
- Blister in the SunViolent FemmesB minor97BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 101 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 101 BPMB minor at 100–109 BPMEminem
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5daa1b39-d66c-4e8c-b4f2-16c6d10fd053.