Artist profile
Alicia Keys is a pianist and singer-songwriter known for blending soul, R&B, and hip-hop influences. Her work combines live instrumentation with contemporary production, establishing her as a distinctive voice in modern soul music.
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Alicia Keys is a moderate-energy and a warm production — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical R&B pocket.
Across 15 analysed tracks, Alicia Keys averages 48% energy — harder than 77% of individual R&B tracks.
Measured against 714 R&B tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 80–160 BPM with a median of 94 · predominantly minor keys (60% minor) · most common key: 11B (A Major) with 3 tracks.
How Alicia Keys’s production has shifted across their catalog. The radar overlays earlier and recent eras as one shape, the year-by-year chart shows every metric move, and the tempo trend tracks the BPM migration against the typical R&B tempo.
Across Alicia Keys's catalog, tempos have climbed from ~91 to ~107 BPM; warmth has receded; energy has lifted.
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We scored every transition between Alicia Keys’s 15 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 2 catalogues clear the bar — a transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number you’ll see on any track page. The 2 with the widest margin over chance are below.
Chance is measured, not assumed: 0.573% of transitions between two randomly drawn tracks by different artists in this catalogue reach 80. Listed alphabetically — the set is reproducible, the order inside it is not.
17 of the 600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.4. They come from 9 different Alicia Keys tracks.
Girl on Fire → Summer Too Hot · 11B → 10B · −3 BPM · 85 chemistry
Chemistry weighs harmonic, rhythmic, energy, groove, mood and vocal compatibility. Tempos are as analysed from the recording — where a genre is habitually detected an octave down, this is how we handle it. Different measurement from the audience-overlap list further down the page.
DJs and producers closest to Alicia Keys by audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play. It’s a taste signal, not a measured key-and-tempo match: good for shortlisting crates when you’re prepping a set around Alicia Keys, then check the chemistry on the pair you actually mix. Eligible names link to their own page.
Similarity data from Last.fm. BPM, key and energy on this page are measured from the recordings in our catalog.
Alicia Keys's tracks in our catalog range from 80 to 160 BPM, with a median of 94 BPM. Across 15 tracks, the most common range falls in the 95–100 BPM bucket.
Alicia Keys's tracks are mostly in minor keys (60% minor across 15 tracks). The most common single key is 11B (A Major) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between Alicia Keys's 15 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 2 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Chris Brown, Tems are three of them — listed alphabetically, because the set is reproducible and the order inside it is not. A transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number shown on a track page. One measured example: Girl on Fire into Summer Too Hot, 11B to 10B, 85 chemistry.
Alicia Keys sits closest to Mary J. Blige, John Legend, Destiny's Child in our catalog. That ranking is audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play — rather than a measured key-and-tempo match, so treat it as a shortlist worth digging through, not a promise that any two tracks will beatmatch. The full list, with track counts, is in the Related artists section above.
Our catalog has Alicia Keys releases spanning 2001 to 2024, with the most tracks from the 2000s.
