Hold It by The Mar-Keys Song Details

The Mar-Keys's ' "Hold It" was released on its scheduled release date, 1961. The duration of This song is about two minutes long, specifically at 2:08. This song does not appear to have any foul language. Hold It's duration is considered a little bit shorter than the average duration of a typical track. There are a total of 12 in the song's album "The Last Night!". In this album, this song's track order is #10. Hold It is not that popular right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

With Hold It by The Mar-Keys having a BPM of 76 with a half-time of 38 BPM and a double-time of 152 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Adagio (slowly with great expression) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of C Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-7.234 dB
Acousticness
77%
Danceability
63%
Energy
62%
Instrumentalness
90%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
88%
Speechiness
6%
Valence
68%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records