TempoPeek

The Clash · London Calling

Rudie Can’t Fail

Rudie Can’t Fail is in A flat major at 97.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

97 BPM · Andantemedian of 209 analyses · 96.4–97.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
62%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
209people who ran the extractor
One beat
616.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
452.9Hz · +50 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.74dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.931Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.217Essentia'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

209 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 62% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 209 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 97.3 BPM one beat lasts 616.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 154.2 ms and a dotted eighth 462.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 194.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 452.9 Hz, which is 50 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.74 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 0.931 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 flat 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 97 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42466.60.41
Half note21233.30.81
Dotted quarter1.59251.08
Quarter note (one beat)1616.61.62
Quarter triplet0.667411.12.43
Dotted eighth0.75462.52.16
Eighth note0.5308.33.24
Eighth triplet0.333205.54.86
Dotted sixteenth0.375231.24.32
Sixteenth note0.25154.26.49
Sixteenth triplet0.167102.89.73
Thirty-second note0.12577.112.97

Half time 48.7 BPM · double time 194.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (616.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. No Sleep Till BrooklynBeastie BoysA♭ major97BPM
  2. Girl You Know It’s TrueMilli VanilliA♭ major98BPM
  3. The Living YearsMike + the MechanicsA♭ major98BPM
  4. The PaybackJames BrownA♭ major98BPM
  5. My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)En VogueA♭ major98BPM
  6. Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Want), Part 1James BrownA♭ major98BPM
  7. Runnin’ With the DevilVan HalenA♭ major96BPM
  8. ReflectionChristina AguileraA♭ major96BPM
  9. Green Green Grass of HomeTom JonesA♭ major96BPM
  10. All Through the NightCyndi LauperA♭ major95BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 97 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 97 BPMA♭ major at 90–99 BPMThe Clash

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 97ea0a85-14ad-47c4-a086-8493307a130e.