Tempo ranges: where Afrobeats, Amapiano and Afro House actually sit

Afrobeats usually lands around 100–112 BPM with a half-time feel that reads slower than the number suggests. Amapiano sits close to 112–118. Afro House runs roughly 118–126, and the harder, more percussive end pushes past that.

These are working bands, not laws. Plenty of tracks sit between them, and a 108 BPM Afrobeats record with a busy hi-hat pattern can hold a floor that a 122 BPM house record just lost.

As a rule of thumb, a change under about 3% passes unnoticed, 3–6% is audible but musical, and beyond 6% you are asking the room to accept a different gear. Most DJ players pitch comfortably inside that first band without artefacts.

Direction matters too. Climbing tempo across a set feels natural; dropping it mid-peak reads as a mistake unless you frame it — a break, a vocal moment, an acapella.

Every analysed track gets a measured BPM and a beat grid derived from the audio, not from a filename or a tag. The engine uses the measured values to compute the exact delta and the pitch percentage between each pair of neighbouring tracks in your set.

If a track has never been analysed, its tempo is shown as not measured. The engine will not fill the gap with an estimate.