Hanoi Rocks · Twelve Shots on the Rocks
People Like Me
People Like Me is in E major at 144.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
145 BPM · Allegromedian of 220 analyses · 144.9–144.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 220people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 414.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.44dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.934Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.032Essentia'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
220 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 220 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 144.9 BPM one beat lasts 414.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 103.5 ms and a dotted eighth 310.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 289.8. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 2.44 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 0.934 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 145 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1656.3 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 828.2 | 1.21 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 621.1 | 1.61 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 414.1 | 2.42 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 276.1 | 3.62 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 310.6 | 3.22 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 207 | 4.83 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 138 | 7.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 155.3 | 6.44 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 103.5 | 9.66 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69 | 14.49 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51.8 | 19.32 |
Half time 72.5 BPM · double time 289.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (414.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- China GroveThe Doobie BrothersE major145BPM
- Can’t Get There From HereR.E.M.E major145BPM
- Worry RockGreen DayE major144BPM
- Don’t Tell MeAvril LavigneE major144BPM
- Whatcha SayJason DerüloE major144BPM
- Gimme Some Lovin’Blues BrothersE major144BPM
- Don’t You Wanna StayJason Aldean with Kelly ClarksonE major144BPM
- Talking to the MoonBruno MarsE major146BPM
- Have I Told You LatelyVan MorrisonE major144BPM
- I Do Not Hook UpKelly ClarksonE major144BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 145 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 145 BPME major at 140–149 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 025f8a66-ad95-41ff-ab8f-4c5ae8f068a6.