Hold On
by Alabama Shakes
- 88
- BPM
- F major
- Key
- 7B
- Camelot
- 58
- Danceability
- 21
- Acousticness
Alabama Shakes put out "Hold On" in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2012. It was the lead single from the band's studio album Boys & Girls, which came out that same year.
The video followed on YouTube on March 30, 2012. The band performed the song live in a studio, with no story laid over it.
By the end of the year the song was on several best-of lists. Rolling Stone named it the best song of 2012. In the Village Voice's 40th annual Pazz & Jop poll, voters placed it eleventh among the year's singles. Years later NPR ranked it the fifth best song by a woman or non-binary artist in the 21st century.
Hold On runs at 88 BPM, the tempo of boom-bap hip-hop, reggae and slow R&B. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.73 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 682 ms. It is in F major, Camelot 7B, which shares its notes with D minor and mixes cleanly with Bb major and C major.
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