Hip-Hop · 1980s

Hip-Hop loudness in the 1980s

-17.1 Median integrated LUFS
-22 to -14.1 Range
13 Tracks

Distribution

-22 to -21 LUFS: 1 track-21 to -20 LUFS: 0 tracks-20 to -19 LUFS: 2 tracks-19 to -18 LUFS: 2 tracks-18 to -17 LUFS: 2 tracks-17 to -16 LUFS: 4 tracks-16 to -15 LUFS: 0 tracks-15 to -14 LUFS: 2 tracks -22 LUFS -18 LUFS -14 LUFS

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Beastie Boys — Fight for Your Right
-14.1 LUFS
Quietest: Beastie Boys — Paul Revere
-22.0 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Howie Weinberg
n=13 · median -17.1 LUFS

Other decades

Hip-Hop in the 1990s →

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 13 measured tracks, not a survey of every Hip-Hop release from the 1980s.