Taylor Swift’s “august” remained on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two consecutive weeks in 2020.
The song entered the Hot 100 after Folklore’s surprise release and reached a peak of number 23. Its two-week run reflects the initial burst of attention surrounding the album’s release, when all of Folklore’s songs competed for chart activity at the same time.
This figure is easy to confuse with the song’s 20-week run on the US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. The two charts measure different markets and use different competitive fields. “august” performed better and lasted longer on the genre chart than on the broader all-genre Hot 100.
Its later annual streaming revivals created new attention, but those recurring August surges do not change the original 2020 Hot 100 run. The two-week figure belongs to the song’s first chart appearance.