TempoPeek

Jason Aldean with Kelly Clarkson · My Kinda Party

Don’t You Wanna Stay

Don’t You Wanna Stay is in E major at 144 beats per minute.

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Tempo

144 BPM · Allegromedian of 231 analyses · 143.9–144 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
231people who ran the extractor
One beat
416.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.84dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.672Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.985Essentia'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

231 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 231 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 144 BPM one beat lasts 416.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.2 ms and a dotted eighth 312.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72 BPM, counted twice as fast 288. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 5.84 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 0.672 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 144 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41666.70.6
Half note2833.31.2
Dotted quarter1.56251.6
Quarter note (one beat)1416.72.4
Quarter triplet0.667277.83.6
Dotted eighth0.75312.53.2
Eighth note0.5208.34.8
Eighth triplet0.333138.97.2
Dotted sixteenth0.375156.36.4
Sixteenth note0.25104.29.6
Sixteenth triplet0.16769.414.4
Thirty-second note0.12552.119.2

Half time 72 BPM · double time 288 BPM. Every row is one beat (416.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Whatcha SayJason DerüloE major144BPM
  2. Gimme Some Lovin’Blues BrothersE major144BPM
  3. Don’t Tell MeAvril LavigneE major144BPM
  4. Have I Told You LatelyVan MorrisonE major144BPM
  5. I Do Not Hook UpKelly ClarksonE major144BPM
  6. Rock and Roll MusicThe Beach BoysE major144BPM
  7. Caught With Your Pants DownAC/DCE major144BPM
  8. Worry RockGreen DayE major144BPM
  9. This LoveTaylor SwiftE major144BPM
  10. People Like MeHanoi RocksE major145BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 144 BPME major at 140–149 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 00b83373-d40e-440e-8626-11868016210d.