The Black Eyed Peas · Elephunk
Shut Up
Shut Up is in D minor at 112.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 187 analyses · 112.8–112.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 187people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 531.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.23dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.933Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.696Essentia'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
187 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 187 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 112.9 BPM one beat lasts 531.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 132.9 ms and a dotted eighth 398.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 225.8. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 4.23 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 0.933 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 D 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 D minor
Each of these differs from D 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 113 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2125.8 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1062.9 | 0.94 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 797.2 | 1.25 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 531.4 | 1.88 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 354.3 | 2.82 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 398.6 | 2.51 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 265.7 | 3.76 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 177.1 | 5.65 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 199.3 | 5.02 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 132.9 | 7.53 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 88.6 | 11.29 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66.4 | 15.05 |
Half time 56.5 BPM · double time 225.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (531.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Power to the PeopleJohn Lennon & The Plastic Ono BandD minor113BPM
- LateralusToolD minor113BPM
- Call It in the AirThriceD minor113BPM
- D.J.David BowieD minor112BPM
- Disco ClubThe Black Eyed PeasD minor114BPM
- Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?Rod StewartD minor112BPM
- Wearing and TearingLed ZeppelinD minor112BPM
- Something Got Me StartedSimply RedD minor112BPM
- Blue in GreenMiles DavisD minor112BPM
- Adventure of a LifetimeColdplayD minor112BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 113 BPMD minor at 110–119 BPMThe Black Eyed Peas
MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6b643163-30c8-45e7-b536-8dc4ca37ad33.