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Keep Holding On

Keep Holding On is in G major at 107.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

107 BPM · Andantemedian of 140 analyses · 107.3–107.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
140people who ran the extractor
One beat
559.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.24dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.951Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1Essentia'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

140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 107.3 BPM one beat lasts 559.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.8 ms and a dotted eighth 419.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 214.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.24 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 0.951 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 107 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42236.70.45
Half note21118.40.89
Dotted quarter1.5838.81.19
Quarter note (one beat)1559.21.79
Quarter triplet0.667372.82.68
Dotted eighth0.75419.42.38
Eighth note0.5279.63.58
Eighth triplet0.333186.45.37
Dotted sixteenth0.375209.74.77
Sixteenth note0.25139.87.15
Sixteenth triplet0.16793.210.73
Thirty-second note0.12569.914.31

Half time 53.7 BPM · double time 214.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (559.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. HeavenTalking HeadsG major107BPM
  2. Feels Like the First TimeForeignerG major107BPM
  3. Marrakesh ExpressCrosby, Stills & NashG major108BPM
  4. BebotThe Black Eyed PeasG major107BPM
  5. Stop Draggin’ My Heart AroundStevie Nicks with Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersG major107BPM
  6. HysteriaDef LeppardG major107BPM
  7. I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto2PacG major108BPM
  8. Mr. SpacemanThe ByrdsG major108BPM
  9. Tales of Brave UlyssesCreamG major107BPM
  10. Little LoverAC/DCG major107BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 107 BPMG major at 100–109 BPMAvril Lavigne

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id ec16828c-b4e8-46cb-b09e-1238631c491d.