TempoPeek

The Police · Ghost in the Machine

Rehumanize Yourself

Rehumanize Yourself is in E major at 98.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

99 BPM · Andantemedian of 135 analyses · 98.1–98.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
83%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
135people who ran the extractor
One beat
609.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.75dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.961Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.326Essentia'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

135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 98.5 BPM one beat lasts 609.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 152.3 ms and a dotted eighth 456.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 197. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 3.75 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 0.961 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 99 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42436.50.41
Half note21218.30.82
Dotted quarter1.5913.71.09
Quarter note (one beat)1609.11.64
Quarter triplet0.667406.12.46
Dotted eighth0.75456.92.19
Eighth note0.5304.63.28
Eighth triplet0.3332034.93
Dotted sixteenth0.375228.44.38
Sixteenth note0.25152.36.57
Sixteenth triplet0.167101.59.85
Thirty-second note0.12576.113.13

Half time 49.3 BPM · double time 197 BPM. Every row is one beat (609.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Man Out of TimeElvis Costello & The AttractionsE major98BPM
  2. Song for the ManBeastie BoysE major98BPM
  3. QuietSmashing PumpkinsE major99BPM
  4. The LanternThe Rolling StonesE major98BPM
  5. I Wanna Be Your ManThe BeatlesE major99BPM
  6. Rap SongBlack Eyed Peas fea. WyclefE major98BPM
  7. My WeaknessMobyE major99BPM
  8. An EncounterThe 1975E major100BPM
  9. Dark as a DungeonJohnny CashE major100BPM
  10. RobbersThe 1975E major100BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 99 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 99 BPME major at 90–99 BPMThe Police

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 995b8e74-7984-4631-8523-8513ef132f26.