Artist · chart history
The Features
Band Sparta Formed 1994 Indie rock band from Nashville, TN
The Features formed in 1994 in Sparta. The Features has 24 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “This Disorder”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted The Features most often is 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
The Features formed in Sparta, Tennessee, in 1994, and their story is a lesson in how to survive the music business. Their sound lands somewhere between British Invasion rock and roll and synth-happy new wave pop, with Matt Pelham singing and playing guitar out front, Roger Dabbs on bass, Rollum Haas on drums and keyboards fizzing underneath.
They signed with Nashville's Spongebath Records in 1997, moved to Universal in 2003, and put out their debut album, Exhibit A, in 2004 with Parrish Yaw on keyboards, touring it alongside fellow Tennesseans Kings of Leon. Then came the crash: amid creative differences, Universal dropped them just two weeks before they were due to start their second album. Yaw left, Mark Bond took over the keyboards, and the band kept going on their own, self-releasing the Contrast EP in 2006 and Some Kind of Salvation in 2008.
The rescue came from their old tourmates. Kings of Leon started a label, Serpents & Snakes, just to sign them, and it put out Wilderness in 2011 and a self-titled album in 2013. "How It Starts" and "This Disorder" both made the top 40 of Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, and the band played Jimmy Kimmel Live! twice. Sunset Rock followed in 2015, before a hiatus the next year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Features on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This Disorder | 8 | #9 | – | 2013 | |
| 2 | How It Starts | 5 | #20 | – | 2011 | |
| 3 | Another One | 4 | #29 | – | 2012 | |
| 4 | Serious | 1 | #69 | – | 2023 | |
| 5 | Good Old Days | 1 | #42 | – | 2014 | |
| 6 | Big Momma Gonna Whip Us Good | 1 | #79 | – | 2012 | |
| 7 | Blow It Out | 1 | #315 | – | 2005 | |
| 8 | The Way It's Meant To Be | 1 | #84 | – | 2004 | |
| 9 | The New Romantic | 1 | #90 | – | 2013 | |
| 10 | Lions | 1 | #103 | – | 2009 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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