When was Taylor Swift’s song “august” released?

Taylor Swift’s song “august” was released on July 24, 2020.

The track arrived as part of Folklore, Swift’s eighth studio album. The album was released as a surprise during the COVID-19 pandemic, with little advance promotion compared with her earlier records. “august” was therefore available to listeners immediately as an album track rather than first being introduced through a conventional promotional single campaign.

The release date is sometimes confused with August 1, because fans prominently celebrate the song at the beginning of August each year. However, the song had already been available for more than a week before that annual social-media tradition began. Its title refers to the month central to the song’s summer-romance imagery, not to its release date.

The track later became a recurring seasonal streaming success. Its popularity rises again each August, making its July 2020 release date an especially useful detail for separating the song’s launch from the later fan trend.