"Feel It Still" is a song by American
rock band
Portugal. The Man. The song draws on the melody from
the Marvelettes' 1961 hit "
Please Mr. Postman";[4][5] written by the band along with producers
John Hill and
Asa Taccone, "Feel It Still" also includes a credit for
Motown songwriter
Brian Holland. It serves as the second single and first radio single off their eighth studio album, Woodstock. The song reached number one on the US
Alternative Songs, Mexican and Russian
Tophit airplay chart. It was also their first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming a
sleeper hit, 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.
Sheet music for the song "Feel It Still" is published in
C# Minor in
common time signature with a suggested tempo of "quick with zest" at 158 beats per minute.[6]
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.[7]
Commercial performance
The song became the band's first to top both the BillboardAlternative Songs and the
Adult Alternative Songs charts. Taking six weeks to do so, it is the fastest an artist has achieved their first chart-topper on the latter chart since
Mumford & Sons' "
I Will Wait" took three weeks to reach number one.[8][9] "Feel It Still" also climbed to number four on the BillboardHot 100, becoming their first entry on the chart.[5] 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
Muse, which spent 19 weeks at the top from 2012 to 2013.[10] 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;[11][12] in September 2023, the magazine ranked the song at number 5 on a similar retrospective list for the 35th anniversary of Alternative Songs.[13][14]
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
Gotye and
Kimbra with "
Somebody That I Used to Know" 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.[15] The YouTube video has more than 362,000,000 views.[16]
^Rolling Stone Staff (November 29, 2017).
"50 Best Songs of 2017". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 6, 2022. "Feel It Still" reaches back to the frantic mod sweat of vintage Detroit soul...
^Schlanger, Talia (May 2, 2017).
"Portugal. The Man On World Cafe". NPR.org. NPR.
Archived from the original on June 18, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017. Then there's the song itself, which bears a certain resemblance to the old Marvelettes song "Please Mr. Postman." And while Portugal. The Man certainly didn't try to pull one over on anybody, and even warned its team about the similarities between the two songs, the band explains why it had to get lawyers involved.
^"
ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Change the chart to CZ – RADIO – TOP 100 and insert 201742 into search. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
^"
ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Digital Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Change the chart to CZ – SINGLES DIGITAL – TOP 100 and insert 201743 into search. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
^"
ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 20181 into search. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
^"
ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select SINGLES DIGITAL - TOP 100 and insert 201748 into search. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
^"Tónlistinn – Lög – 2018" [The Music – Songs – 2018] (in Icelandic). Plötutíóindi.
Archived from the original on 29 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
"Feel It Still" is a song by American
rock band
Portugal. The Man. The song draws on the melody from
the Marvelettes' 1961 hit "
Please Mr. Postman";[4][5] written by the band along with producers
John Hill and
Asa Taccone, "Feel It Still" also includes a credit for
Motown songwriter
Brian Holland. It serves as the second single and first radio single off their eighth studio album, Woodstock. The song reached number one on the US
Alternative Songs, Mexican and Russian
Tophit airplay chart. It was also their first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming a
sleeper hit, 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.
Sheet music for the song "Feel It Still" is published in
C# Minor in
common time signature with a suggested tempo of "quick with zest" at 158 beats per minute.[6]
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.[7]
Commercial performance
The song became the band's first to top both the BillboardAlternative Songs and the
Adult Alternative Songs charts. Taking six weeks to do so, it is the fastest an artist has achieved their first chart-topper on the latter chart since
Mumford & Sons' "
I Will Wait" took three weeks to reach number one.[8][9] "Feel It Still" also climbed to number four on the BillboardHot 100, becoming their first entry on the chart.[5] 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
Muse, which spent 19 weeks at the top from 2012 to 2013.[10] 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;[11][12] in September 2023, the magazine ranked the song at number 5 on a similar retrospective list for the 35th anniversary of Alternative Songs.[13][14]
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
Gotye and
Kimbra with "
Somebody That I Used to Know" 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.[15] The YouTube video has more than 362,000,000 views.[16]
^Rolling Stone Staff (November 29, 2017).
"50 Best Songs of 2017". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 6, 2022. "Feel It Still" reaches back to the frantic mod sweat of vintage Detroit soul...
^Schlanger, Talia (May 2, 2017).
"Portugal. The Man On World Cafe". NPR.org. NPR.
Archived from the original on June 18, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017. Then there's the song itself, which bears a certain resemblance to the old Marvelettes song "Please Mr. Postman." And while Portugal. The Man certainly didn't try to pull one over on anybody, and even warned its team about the similarities between the two songs, the band explains why it had to get lawyers involved.
^"
ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Change the chart to CZ – RADIO – TOP 100 and insert 201742 into search. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
^"
ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Digital Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Change the chart to CZ – SINGLES DIGITAL – TOP 100 and insert 201743 into search. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
^"
ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 20181 into search. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
^"
ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select SINGLES DIGITAL - TOP 100 and insert 201748 into search. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
^"Tónlistinn – Lög – 2018" [The Music – Songs – 2018] (in Icelandic). Plötutíóindi.
Archived from the original on 29 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.