Taylor Swift’s “august” is track 8 on the standard edition of Folklore.
The song appears in the album’s middle section, following “seven” and preceding “this is me trying.” Its placement helped make the lowercase title and track number part of the album’s distinctive presentation.
Folklore was released as a surprise album on July 24, 2020. Unlike a conventional concept album with a single continuous plot, it uses fictional characters, imagined histories, and recurring emotional themes. “august” belongs to the album’s best-known narrative thread, which also includes “cardigan” and “betty.”
The track number is sometimes confused with the album’s position in Taylor Swift’s discography: Folklore is her eighth studio album, and “august” is also its eighth track. Those are separate facts, even though the matching numbers are memorable.