Folklore won the 2021 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and contains Taylor Swift’s “august.”
At the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, Folklore won Album of the Year. The victory made Swift the first woman to win that award three times as a solo artist, following earlier wins for Fearless and 1989. Folklore was also recognized for its songwriting and production, helping establish the album as a major critical and commercial milestone.
The album’s success arrived after its surprise release in July 2020. Its subdued sound and fictional storytelling contrasted with the brighter pop presentation of several previous Swift albums. “august” became one of the songs most closely associated with the album’s atmosphere and later developed its recurring August fan tradition.
Evermore is sometimes named by mistake because it was another critically acclaimed Swift album released later in the same year. However, Evermore did not contain “august,” and Folklore was the album that won the 2021 Album of the Year Grammy.