The Red Hot Chili Peppers · Freaky Styley

If You Want Me to Stay

If You Want Me to Stay is in A minor at 100.5 beats per minute.

Tempo

101 BPM · Andantemedian of 172 analyses · 100.4–100.5 across the middle eight tenths

Key: A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 86%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 172people who ran the extractor
One beat: 597milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 452.8Hz · +49.5 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 5.83dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.894Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.59Essentia'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

172 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 86% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 172 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 100.5 BPM one beat lasts 597 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 149.3 ms and a dotted eighth 447.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 201. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 452.8 Hz, which is 49.5 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.83 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 0.894 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 101 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	2388.1	0.42
Half note	2	1194	0.84
Dotted quarter	1.5	895.5	1.12
Quarter note (one beat)	1	597	1.67
Quarter triplet	0.667	398	2.51
Dotted eighth	0.75	447.8	2.23
Eighth note	0.5	298.5	3.35
Eighth triplet	0.333	199	5.02
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	223.9	4.47
Sixteenth note	0.25	149.3	6.7
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	99.5	10.05
Thirty-second note	0.125	74.6	13.4

Half time 50.3 BPM · double time 201 BPM. Every row is one beat (597 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

If You Want Me to StaySly & the Family StoneF♯ major102BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 101 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minor All songs at 101 BPM A minor at 100–109 BPM The Red Hot Chili Peppers

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id dce3f6d8-0b0d-4e9a-a974-dd7bbad685e4.