For just the second time since she released The Tortured Poets Department in April, there’s a name besides Taylor Swift at the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart. Post Malone ’s country music turn F-1 Trillion debuted in the No. 1 slot for the week ending August 22, moving 250,000 album-equivalent units in its first week of release.
Led by the Morgan Wallen -assisted single “I Had Some Help” and his Blake Shelton collab “Pour Me A Drink,” Malone’s genre exercise notched the second-biggest debut for a country album in 2024, behind Beyoncé ’s Cowboy Carter . TTPD fell two slots to No. 3 with Chappel Roan ’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climbing into the second spot.
The only other release that’s managed to knock Swift’s 11th studio album off its perch since spring was Eminem ’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) in June. The Detroit rapper’s latest quickly fell from that spot, with TTPD regaining the pole position the following week. Malone (real name Austin Post) collaborated with Swift on TTPD ’s opening track “Fortnight.
” Swift praised Malone’s new album after he played it for her on the set of the “Fortnight” music video, in which they both star. “Was lucky enough to hear this amazing music on the set of the ‘fortnight’ video when Austin played it for me,” Swift, 34, shared via her Instagram Story earlier this month, alongside a behind-the-scenes photo of the pair. “It’s incredible how versatile his ar.