Massive Attack · Protection
Karmacoma
Karmacoma is in B flat minor at 141 beats per minute.
Tempo
141 BPM · Allegromedian of 138 analyses · 141–141.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B♭ minor5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 138people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 425.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.39dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.927Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.285Essentia'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
138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in B flat minor, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 141 BPM one beat lasts 425.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.4 ms and a dotted eighth 319.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 282. 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 4.39 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 0.927 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 flat 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 141 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1702.1 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 851.1 | 1.18 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 638.3 | 1.57 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 425.5 | 2.35 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 283.7 | 3.53 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 319.1 | 3.13 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 212.8 | 4.7 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 141.8 | 7.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 159.6 | 6.27 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 106.4 | 9.4 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 70.9 | 14.1 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.2 | 18.8 |
Half time 70.5 BPM · double time 282 BPM. Every row is one beat (425.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- DipDanny BrownB♭ minor140BPM
- JumpmanDrake & FutureB♭ minor142BPM
- All of the LightsKanye WestB♭ minor142BPM
- I Get the BagGucci Mane feat. MigosB♭ minor140BPM
- Wild for the NightA$AP Rocky feat. Skrillex & Birdy Nam NamB♭ minor140BPM
- Drunk in LoveBeyoncé featuring JAY ZB♭ minor140BPM
- Farewell to EarthPaul DinletirB♭ minor139BPM
- WomanizerBritney SpearsB♭ minor139BPM
- Bad BloodBastilleB♭ minor143BPM
- That HumpErykah BaduB♭ minor143BPM
Recordings in B flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 141 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B flat minorAll songs at 141 BPMB♭ minor at 140–149 BPMMassive Attack
MusicBrainz collapses 32 recording ids into this one. Recording id bffca891-5f37-47cf-a38f-4ba51a4d8e0f.