Red Hot Chili Peppers · Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Blood Sugar Sex Magik is in A minor at 147.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
147 BPM · Allegromedian of 187 analyses · 147.2–147.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 90%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 187people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 407.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.6dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.931Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.478Essentia'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
187 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 187 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 147.2 BPM one beat lasts 407.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.9 ms and a dotted eighth 305.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 294.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below 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 3.6 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 0.931 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 A minor; 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A minor 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 147 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1630.4 | 0.61 |
| Half note | 2 | 815.2 | 1.23 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 611.4 | 1.64 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 407.6 | 2.45 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 271.7 | 3.68 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 305.7 | 3.27 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 203.8 | 4.91 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 135.9 | 7.36 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 152.9 | 6.54 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 101.9 | 9.81 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 67.9 | 14.72 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51 | 19.63 |
Half time 73.6 BPM · double time 294.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (407.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The View From the AfternoonArctic MonkeysA minor147BPM
- Love Her MadlyThe DoorsA minor147BPM
- Bark at the MoonOzzy OsbourneA minor147BPM
- 53 Miles West of VenusThe B‐52sA minor148BPM
- XChris BrownA minor148BPM
- InnuendoQueenA minor148BPM
- Bring Your Daughter… to the SlaughterIron MaidenA minor148BPM
- AlabamaNeil YoungA minor148BPM
- Can’t Hold UsMacklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray DaltonA minor146BPM
- TangledMaroon 5A minor146BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 147 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 147 BPMA minor at 140–149 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 47 recording ids into this one. Recording id c374e71d-c584-4f55-a785-52e7fe4e4bf4.