The Red Hot Chili Peppers · Freaky Styley
Hollywood (Africa)
Hollywood (Africa) is in C major at 89.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
89 BPM · Andantemedian of 190 analyses · 89.2–178.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 190people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 671.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.47dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.863Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.392Essentia'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
190 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 190 readings; 81% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 89.2 to 178.2 BPM.
At 89.3 BPM one beat lasts 671.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 168 ms and a dotted eighth 503.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 178.6. 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 4.47 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 0.863 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 89 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2687.6 | 0.37 |
| Half note | 2 | 1343.8 | 0.74 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1007.8 | 0.99 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 671.9 | 1.49 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 447.9 | 2.23 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 503.9 | 1.98 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 335.9 | 2.98 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 224 | 4.47 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 252 | 3.97 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 168 | 5.95 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 112 | 8.93 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 84 | 11.91 |
Half time 44.7 BPM · double time 178.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (671.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- I Only Have Eyes for YouThe FlamingosC major89BPM
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- Fall to PiecesAvril LavigneC major89BPM
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- (Let Me Be Your) Teddy BearElvis PresleyC major89BPM
- Bemsha SwingJohn Coltrane & Don CherryC major90BPM
- The Downeaster “Alexa”Billy JoelC major90BPM
- The Game of LoveDaft PunkC major90BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 89 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 89 BPMC major at 80–89 BPMThe Red Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 96884f68-20e2-4e9b-89c4-d4f876188eb4.