Red Hot Chili Peppers · Blood Sugar Sex Magik
They’re Red Hot
They’re Red Hot is in C major at 152.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
153 BPM · Allegromedian of 135 analyses · 152.4–152.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 87%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 135people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 393.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 9.33dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.936Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.071Essentia'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
135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 87% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 152.5 BPM one beat lasts 393.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.4 ms and a dotted eighth 295.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 305. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 9.33 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 0.936 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 153 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1573.8 | 0.64 |
| Half note | 2 | 786.9 | 1.27 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 590.2 | 1.69 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 393.4 | 2.54 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 262.3 | 3.81 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 295.1 | 3.39 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 196.7 | 5.08 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 131.1 | 7.63 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 147.5 | 6.78 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 98.4 | 10.17 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65.6 | 15.25 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.2 | 20.33 |
Half time 76.3 BPM · double time 305 BPM. Every row is one beat (393.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- It Doesn’t Matter AnymoreLinda RonstadtC major153BPM
- Fire and RainJames TaylorC major152BPM
- Let Love RuleLenny KravitzC major153BPM
- Where Is the LoveCéline DionC major153BPM
- BirdsNeil YoungC major152BPM
- Only the Good Die YoungBilly JoelC major152BPM
- Cry Baby CryThe BeatlesC major153BPM
- StagesZZ TopC major152BPM
- Five YearsDavid BowieC major153BPM
- ImagineJohn LennonC major152BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 153 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 153 BPMC major at 150–159 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 01452671-569d-4d1f-8660-e606f532c183.