TempoPeek

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Hold On

Hold On is in G major at 147.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

148 BPM · Allegromedian of 129 analyses · 147.9–147.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
129people who ran the extractor
One beat
405.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.55dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.912Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.137Essentia'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

129 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 129 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 147.9 BPM one beat lasts 405.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.4 ms and a dotted eighth 304.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74 BPM, counted twice as fast 295.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 3.55 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 0.912 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 148 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41622.70.62
Half note2811.41.23
Dotted quarter1.5608.51.64
Quarter note (one beat)1405.72.47
Quarter triplet0.667270.53.7
Dotted eighth0.75304.33.29
Eighth note0.5202.84.93
Eighth triplet0.333135.27.4
Dotted sixteenth0.375152.16.57
Sixteenth note0.25101.49.86
Sixteenth triplet0.16767.614.79
Thirty-second note0.12550.719.72

Half time 74 BPM · double time 295.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (405.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Hold OnGreen DayG major136BPM
  2. Hold OnWilson PhillipsF major98BPM

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

  1. Love Me DoThe BeatlesG major148BPM
  2. Only Women BleedAlice CooperG major148BPM
  3. These Are the DaysJamie CullumG major148BPM
  4. Do You Have a Little TimeDidoG major148BPM
  5. Love, Oh LoveLionel RichieG major148BPM
  6. Holidays in the SunSex PistolsG major148BPM
  7. Wild HorsesThe Rolling StonesG major147BPM
  8. I Fought the LawThe Bobby Fuller FourG major149BPM
  9. ProofPaul SimonG major147BPM
  10. Helplessly HopingCrosby, Stills & NashG major147BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 148 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 148 BPMG major at 140–149 BPMJet

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 7c89b9d4-6f7a-4146-921f-d7e4c80dbd37.