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F-1 Trillion (2024)

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Post Malone's country album started as a question on The Howard Stern Show in 2022, and it went on to top the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Album story

Overview

• F-1 Trillion: sixth studio album by American musician Post Malone
• Released 16 August 2024 through Mercury and Republic Records
• Produced by Louis Bell, Charlie Handsome, and Jonathan Hoskins; Hoskins also co-produced some tracks
• Marks Malone's transition to country music, with country pop elements
• Guest appearances: Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Luke Combs, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll, Ernest, Sierra Ferrell, Chris Stapleton, Hardy, and Billy Strings
• Five singles: 'I Had Some Help', 'Pour Me a Drink', 'Guy for That', 'What Don't Belong to Me', and 'Losers'
• Extended edition Long Bed was released right after the standard edition, with nine additional tracks

Background

• In June 2022, Malone was interviewed by The Howard Stern Show, where Stern asked him about possibly making a country album
• Malone said nothing stopped him from recording a country album on his own
• 2023: first country work, a re-recording of 'Pickup Man' by Joe Diffie, which reached the Hot Country Songs chart at number 34
• March 2024: featured on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter on 'Levii's Jeans', which later peaked at number 5 on the Hot Country Songs chart

Recording

• Malone recorded and wrote the album with many country writers and musicians
• In an Apple Music interview, he described sessions that ran for about a week at a time, alongside other work
• Many writers contributed to the songs, with some sessions running late into the night
• Production credits are split between Bell, Handsome, and Hoskins

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Austin Richard Post, professionally known as Post Malone, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor.
• His music blends pop, hip-hop, trap, country, R&B, and rock.
• He began his musical career in 2010 and gained mainstream recognition with the 2015 cloud rap single "White Iverson".
• He signed with Republic Records in 2015; his debut album Stoney (2016) produced the Diamond-certified single "Congratulations".
• His second album Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018) debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and produced Hot 100 number-one singles "Rockstar" and "Psycho".
• "Sunflower" with Swae Lee, from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack, became the highest-certified song in RIAA history.
• Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) also debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
• Twelve Carat Toothache (2022) and Austin (2023) both peaked at number two on the Billboard 200.
• In 2024 he topped the Hot 100 with a guest spot on Taylor Swift's "Fortnight" and his country pop single "I Had Some Help" with Morgan Wallen.
• His country music debut F-1 Trillion (2024) became his third number-one album on the Billboard 200.
• He has sold over 150 million records in the US according to the RIAA.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Upon release, the album received mostly positive reviews from music critics
• Metacritic: weighted average score of 71 from nine reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews
• Clash (Robin Murray): positive review that praised Malone's creativity and commercial appeal, though it sometimes struggled under its own weight
• AllMusic (Neil Z. Yeung): positive review, describing the album as a full-on country foray that fans of the genre would enjoy
• Rolling Stone (Joseph Hudak): positive review, saying the album would have benefited from fewer features and more solo songs, and praising the most stripped-down tracks
• Pitchfork (Meaghan Garvey): said the shift to pop-country felt right and that most of the collaborations are solid
• The Guardian (Michael Cragg): mixed review, calling the album a little formulaic and saying Malone was shooting a little too straight
• The Observer (Ammar Kalia): described the album as surprisingly enjoyable, but too long and overly polished
• AnyDecentMusic?: 6.4 out of 10, based on the critical consensus

Reappraisal

• No retrospective critical reassessment is recorded in the source

Records

• US Billboard 200: debuted at number one with 250,000 album-equivalent units, including 80,000 pure album sales
• Malone's third album to reach number one on the Billboard 200
• UK Albums Chart: debuted at number one, Malone's third album to debut there
• Also topped the charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Norway

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album came after Malone's 2022 interview on The Howard Stern Show, where he answered a question about a future country album.
• Malone's first country work was a re-recording of 'Pickup Man' by Joe Diffie, which reached number 34 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
• The lead single 'I Had Some Help' featuring Morgan Wallen debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 with the highest weekly sales and streams since 2020, giving Malone his sixth number-one song.
• The second single 'Pour Me a Drink' featuring Blake Shelton came out on 21 June 2024, and Malone shared the album's cover art the same day.
• The F-1 Trillion Tour began on 8 September 2024 at the Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre in West Valley City, Utah.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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