Taylor Swift’s “august” is track 8 on the Folklore album.
Its position places it in the central portion of Folklore’s standard 16-track sequence. The album opens with “the 1,” followed by songs including “cardigan,” while “august” arrives before the closing run that includes “epiphany” and “hoax.”
The track number is a useful way to distinguish the song from other Folklore material, especially because the album contains several connected narratives and similarly atmospheric titles. “august” is not the album’s opening track, title track, or final song.
Its placement also helped listeners encounter the song as part of a larger story rather than as an isolated seasonal anthem. Fans later gave it a separate August identity because its lyrics evoke fading summer memories, but it remains an album track within Folklore’s carefully arranged sequence.