New Wave · 2000s

New Wave loudness in the 2000s

-11 Median integrated LUFS
-21.5 to -6.9 Range
143 Tracks

Loudness distribution

-22 to -21 LUFS: 1 track-21 to -20 LUFS: 0 tracks-20 to -19 LUFS: 0 tracks-19 to -18 LUFS: 0 tracks-18 to -17 LUFS: 0 tracks-17 to -16 LUFS: 1 track-16 to -15 LUFS: 1 track-15 to -14 LUFS: 5 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 11 tracks-13 to -12 LUFS: 12 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 38 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 34 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 27 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 8 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 4 tracks-7 to -6 LUFS: 1 track -22 LUFS -14 LUFS -6 LUFS

Dynamic range distribution

8 to 9 DR: 1 track9 to 10 DR: 0 tracks10 to 11 DR: 5 tracks11 to 12 DR: 15 tracks12 to 13 DR: 15 tracks13 to 14 DR: 45 tracks14 to 15 DR: 37 tracks15 to 16 DR: 16 tracks16 to 17 DR: 5 tracks17 to 18 DR: 2 tracks18 to 19 DR: 1 track19 to 20 DR: 1 track 8 DR 14 DR 20 DR

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Slow Jam
New Order
-6.9 LUFS
Quietest: Elegia (Glastonbury Festival 6.19.87)
New Order
-21.5 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Simon Heyworth
n=18 · median -9.8 LUFS

Other decades

← New Wave in the 1990s

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 143 measured tracks, not a survey of every New Wave release from the 2000s.