"Feel It Still" is a song by American

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band Portugal. The Man. The song, which interpolates

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' 1961 hit " Please Mr. Postman", was written by the band along with

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, with the latter two serving as producers. 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 Tophit 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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Music video

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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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" 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 peaked inside the top 20 in France and Switzerland. "Feel It Still" has spent twenty 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 ''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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" 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 326,000,000 views.

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