Fortnight (song)

"Fortnight"
"Fortnight"
Single by Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone
from the album The Tortured Poets Department
Released	April 19, 2024
Studio	Conway Recording (Los Angeles); Electric Lady (New York);
Genre	Downtempo; electropop; synth-pop;
Length	3:48
Label	Republic
Songwriter(s)	Taylor Swift; Jack Antonoff; Austin Post;
Producer(s)	Taylor Swift; Jack Antonoff;
Taylor Swift singles chronology
Post Malone singles chronology
Music video
	"Fortnight" on YouTube

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

Music critics were divided on the song; some praised the vocal chemistry of Swift and Malone, but others considered the production weak. "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 with the second highest single-week streaming figure since 2020, marking Swift's twelfth and Malone's fifth number-one song. It earned Swift her fifth number-one single on the Billboard Global 200 chart and peaked atop the charts in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, 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.