Taylor Swift's “august” is track 8 on the standard Folklore track listing.
Its position places it immediately before “this is me trying,” which is track 9, and after “the last great american dynasty,” track 3? More precisely, the standard sequence places “august” after “the last great american dynasty” only when counting the album's earlier tracks; the song is the eighth entry in the complete sequence.
The track's placement is important to the album's narrative flow. Folklore moves among different fictional voices and emotional settings, and “august” arrives as a bright but melancholy summer memory before the album continues into more reflective material.
Listeners sometimes confuse the track number with the album's release date or Swift's album number. Folklore is Swift's eighth studio album, while “august” is its eighth standard track; those are separate facts that happen to share the number eight.