Post Malone

Post Malone, born Austin Post in 1995, has never met a genre fence he wouldn't hop: pop, hip-hop, trap, R&B, rock and, lately, country, all sung in that slurred, melancholy croon. He started making music in 2010 and broke through in 2015 with "White Iverson", a woozy cloud rap single that got him signed to Republic and led off his debut album, Stoney, which also gave him the Diamond-certified "Congratulations" with Quavo.

Beerbongs & Bentleys, in 2018, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200, broke streaming records and landed an Album of the Year nomination. "Rockstar" with 21 Savage and "Psycho" with Ty Dolla Sign both hit number one on the Hot 100, while "Better Now" showed off his gift for a hangdog chorus. "Sunflower", his duet with Swae Lee for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, became the highest-certified song in RIAA history. Hollywood's Bleeding, in 2019, repeated the trick of a number-one debut and an Album of the Year nod, and "Circles", breezy and guitar-driven, spent 61 weeks on the Hot 100 to become his biggest hit.

Twelve Carat Toothache and Austin both peaked at number two, the latter leaning into guitars on "Chemical". Then in 2024 he went country for real: "I Had Some Help", with Morgan Wallen, topped the Hot 100 and led off F-1 Trillion, which became his third number-one album. With more than 150 million records sold in the US alone, he's one of the best-selling artists around.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.