Taylor Swift’s “august” is track 8 on the standard edition of Folklore.
That placement creates a memorable numerical link: “august” is the eighth track, and August is the eighth month of the year. Fans often point to this alignment when discussing the song’s annual August trend, though the track order is an album fact rather than a separate release campaign.
Folklore contains 16 standard tracks, so “august” sits in the album’s second half. It follows “seven” and comes before “this is me trying,” placing it among songs that share the record’s reflective, narrative mood.
The song’s position is sometimes confused with its release date or with the order of the connected love-triangle songs. “august” is the first-written song of the triangle, but its album position is eighth.