"Feel It Still" is a song by American

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. The song draws on the melody from

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' 1961 hit " Please Mr. Postman"; written by the band along with producers John Hill and Asa Taccone, "Feel It Still" also includes a credit for

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songwriter

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. It serves as the second single and first radio single off their eighth studio album, ''

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''. The song reached number one on the US

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, Mexican and Russian

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airplay chart. It was also their first entry on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming a

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, as it took eight months to peak at number four in November 2017. The track reached the top 10 in 18 countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. In January 2018, the song won the

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at the

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Composition

Sheet music for the song "Feel It Still" is published in

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in common time signature with a suggested tempo of "quick with zest" at 158 beats per minute.

Music video

The music video was released on March 6, 2017. An interactive version was also released, powered by technology from WIREWAX. The interactive video contained "Easter eggs" that a viewer could click on to build their #resist toolkit to learn and support 30 different social and political causes.

Commercial performance

The song became the band's first to top both the ''Billboard''

and the

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charts. Taking six weeks to do so, it is the fastest an artist has achieved their first chart-topper on the latter chart since

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' " I Will Wait" took three weeks to reach number one. "Feel It Still" also climbed to number four on the ''Billboard''

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, becoming their first entry on the chart. The song also peaked at number one on the Russian and Mexican airplay charts and in the top 20 in France and Switzerland. "Feel It Still" spent 20 weeks at number one on the Alternative Songs chart, becoming the longest-running number-one song on that chart, beating out " Madness" by

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, which spent 19 weeks at the top from 2012 to 2013. In February 2021, for the 25th anniversary of Adult Alternative Songs, ''Billboard'' ranked "Feel It Still" at number 4 on its list of the 100 most successful songs in the chart's history; in September 2023, the magazine ranked the song at number 5 on a similar retrospective list for the 35th anniversary of Alternative Songs. In ''Billboard''s November 11, 2017 issue, "Feel It Still" joined the list of songs since 2003 to have reached number one on six of the major airplay charts: Radio Songs, Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, Alternative Songs, Adult Alternative Songs and Dance/Mix Show Airplay. Portugal. The Man is the first act to accomplish this feat since

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and

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with "

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" in 2012; they are the only artists to have a number-one Alternative and Adult Alternative single also reach number one on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay since the chart's launch in August 2003. They are now also one of twelve acts to have achieved the feat of having reached number one on six or more airplay charts. The YouTube video has more than 362,000,000 views.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

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