P!nk · Beautiful Trauma
What About Us
What About Us is in C major at 113.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
114 BPM · Moderatomedian of 170 analyses · 113.7–113.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 75%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 170people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 527.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.6Hz · +14 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.02dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.739Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.073Essentia'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
170 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 75% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 170 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 113.7 BPM one beat lasts 527.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 131.9 ms and a dotted eighth 395.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 227.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.6 Hz, which is 14 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 4.02 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 0.739 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 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 114 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2110.8 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1055.4 | 0.95 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 791.6 | 1.26 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 527.7 | 1.9 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 351.8 | 2.84 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 395.8 | 2.53 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 263.9 | 3.79 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 175.9 | 5.69 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 197.9 | 5.05 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 131.9 | 7.58 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 88 | 11.37 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66 | 15.16 |
Half time 56.9 BPM · double time 227.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (527.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Are You Lonesome Tonight?Elvis PresleyC major114BPM
- Be My WifeDavid BowieC major114BPM
- This House Is on FireAC/DCC major114BPM
- BreakdownTom Petty and the HeartbreakersC major114BPM
- TVC 15David BowieC major113BPM
- Till the Morning ComesNeil YoungC major114BPM
- Always SomewhereScorpionsC major114BPM
- Heartache TonightEaglesC major113BPM
- Little ThingsBushC major113BPM
- RunningNo DoubtC major113BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 114 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 114 BPMC major at 110–119 BPMP!nk
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id 38bd40c9-9739-4070-be6e-48da1e65c16c.