TempoPeek

The Prodigy · Music for the Jilted Generation

Poison

Poison is in E flat major at 103.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

104 BPM · Andantemedian of 132 analyses · 103.8–103.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
132people who ran the extractor
One beat
578milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.37dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.64Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.299Essentia'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

132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 103.8 BPM one beat lasts 578 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144.5 ms and a dotted eighth 433.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 207.6. 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 6.37 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 0.64 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 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 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 104 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42312.10.43
Half note21156.10.87
Dotted quarter1.5867.11.15
Quarter note (one beat)15781.73
Quarter triplet0.667385.42.6
Dotted eighth0.75433.52.31
Eighth note0.52893.46
Eighth triplet0.333192.75.19
Dotted sixteenth0.375216.84.61
Sixteenth note0.25144.56.92
Sixteenth triplet0.16796.310.38
Thirty-second note0.12572.313.84

Half time 51.9 BPM · double time 207.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (578 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Meeting Across the RiverBruce SpringsteenE♭ major104BPM
  2. Crown of LoveArcade FireE♭ major104BPM
  3. You Send MeAretha FranklinE♭ major103BPM
  4. How Deep Is Your LoveBee GeesE♭ major105BPM
  5. I Miss YouClean Bandit feat. Julia MichaelsE♭ major105BPM
  6. Father FigureGeorge MichaelE♭ major102BPM
  7. She Will Be LovedMaroon 5E♭ major102BPM
  8. I Won’t Hold You BackTotoE♭ major102BPM
  9. X‐StaticFoo FightersE♭ major102BPM
  10. You Haven’t Done Nothin’Stevie WonderE♭ major101BPM

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 104 BPME♭ major at 100–109 BPMThe Prodigy

MusicBrainz collapses 47 recording ids into this one. Recording id f8032b9f-c85a-4289-a4fb-f21ab3c65921.