The Prodigy · Music for the Jilted Generation
Break & Enter
Break & Enter is in C minor at 138 beats per minute.
Tempo
138 BPM · Allegromedian of 140 analyses · 138–138.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 140people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 434.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 433.7Hz · -25 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.54dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.904Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.317Essentia'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
140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 138 BPM one beat lasts 434.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 108.7 ms and a dotted eighth 326.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 69 BPM, counted twice as fast 276. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 433.7 Hz, which is 25 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 3.54 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 0.904 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 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 C minor
Each of these differs from C 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 138 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1739.1 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 869.6 | 1.15 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 652.2 | 1.53 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 434.8 | 2.3 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 289.9 | 3.45 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 326.1 | 3.07 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 217.4 | 4.6 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 144.9 | 6.9 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 163 | 6.13 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 108.7 | 9.2 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 72.5 | 13.8 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.3 | 18.4 |
Half time 69 BPM · double time 276 BPM. Every row is one beat (434.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Keine LustRammsteinC minor138BPM
- A Question of TimeDepeche ModeC minor136BPM
- Crank That (Soulja Boy)Soulja Boy Tell ’EmC minor140BPM
- A Lack of ColorDeath Cab for CutieC minor136BPM
- Yeat’s GraveThe CranberriesC minor136BPM
- Beautiful LifeAce of BaseC minor135BPM
- Beer Drinkers & Hell RaisersZZ TopC minor135BPM
- Tainted LoveMarilyn MansonC minor142BPM
- Love ShackThe B‐52sC minor134BPM
- ToxicBritney SpearsC minor143BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 138 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 138 BPMC minor at 130–139 BPMThe Prodigy
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id daa9e1bd-56aa-48bf-9c7b-6cd7cac8c223.