Hip-Hop · 2000s

Hip-Hop loudness in the 2000s

-10.1 Median integrated LUFS
-15.9 to -8.1 Range
41 Tracks

Distribution

-16 to -15 LUFS: 1 track-15 to -14 LUFS: 2 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 1 track-13 to -12 LUFS: 2 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 2 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 13 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 13 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 7 tracks -16 LUFS -12 LUFS -8 LUFS

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Various Artists — Beatnuts Forever
-8.1 LUFS
Quietest: Foreign Beggars — Interlude
-15.9 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Naweed Ahmed
n=21 · median -10.3 LUFS
Tom Coyne
n=20 · median -9.6 LUFS

Other decades

← Hip-Hop in the 1990s

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 41 measured tracks, not a survey of every Hip-Hop release from the 2000s.