Fortnight (song)

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"Fortnight"
Swift rests her head on her hand, while Malone with a full beard and lots of tattoos wears a brimmed cap and clasps his hands together against his raised knee.
Single by Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone
from the album The Tortured Poets Department
ReleasedApril 19, 2024 (2024-04-19)
Studio
Genre
Length3:48
LabelRepublic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Taylor Swift
  • Jack Antonoff
Taylor Swift singles chronology
"Is It Over Now?"
(2023) 		"Fortnight"
(2024) 		"I Can Do It with a Broken Heart"
(2024)
Post Malone singles chronology
"Pickup Man"
(2023) 		"Fortnight"
(2024) 		"I Had Some Help"
(2024)
Music video
"Fortnight" on YouTube

"Fortnight" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift featuring the American singer and rapper Post Malone. The two artists wrote the track with Jack Antonoff, who produced it with Swift. Republic Records released it as the lead single from Swift's eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, on April 19, 2024. A 1980s-inspired downtempo electropop, synth-pop, and new wave ballad, "Fortnight" is instrumented by a pulsing synth bassline. Its lyrics portray a woman in an unhappy marriage who rekindles with an ex-lover who is also married, and the two vow to escape to Florida.

Some critics praised the vocal chemistry of Swift and Malone, but others considered the production weak and uninventive. "Fortnight" broke the record for the highest single-day streams on the streaming platform Spotify. In the United States, the song debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, marking Swift's twelfth and Malone's fifth number-one song. "Fortnight" earned Swift her fifth number-one single on the Billboard Global 200 chart and peaked atop the charts in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

An accompanying music video for "Fortnight", directed by Swift, was released the same day as the single's release. It stars Swift, Malone, and the actors Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles. With a black-and-white cinematography, the video includes intertwining scenes of Swift in a psychiatric hospital, and Swift and Malone as lovers. "Fortnight" garnered nine nominations at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, winning five, including Video of the Year.