TempoPeek

The Black Eyed Peas feat. Sting · Monkey Business

Union

Union is in A major at 107 beats per minute.

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Tempo

107 BPM · Andantemedian of 161 analyses · 107–107 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
161people who ran the extractor
One beat
560.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.06dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.949Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.447Essentia'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

161 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 161 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 107 BPM one beat lasts 560.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 140.2 ms and a dotted eighth 420.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 214. A score would mark that Andante, 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 5.06 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 0.949 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 107 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note422430.45
Half note21121.50.89
Dotted quarter1.5841.11.19
Quarter note (one beat)1560.71.78
Quarter triplet0.667373.82.68
Dotted eighth0.75420.62.38
Eighth note0.5280.43.57
Eighth triplet0.333186.95.35
Dotted sixteenth0.375210.34.76
Sixteenth note0.25140.27.13
Sixteenth triplet0.16793.510.7
Thirty-second note0.12570.114.27

Half time 53.5 BPM · double time 214 BPM. Every row is one beat (560.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. One Way OutThe Allman Brothers BandA major107BPM
  2. Numb / EncoreJay‐Z / Linkin ParkA major107BPM
  3. Hot in HerreNellyA major107BPM
  4. Beyoncé InterludeBeyoncéA major107BPM
  5. The Full BugVan HalenA major107BPM
  6. Holly HolyNeil DiamondA major107BPM
  7. Some Sin for Nuthin’AC/DCA major107BPM
  8. Freak on a LeashKornA major107BPM
  9. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)U2A major108BPM
  10. Dig for FirePixiesA major108BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 107 BPMA major at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 26b30431-5527-48c9-a7f0-3d3d5663699c.