Post Malone Is Finally Putting August 26th on Streaming and Vinyl

The Post Malone August 26th mixtape is coming to streaming services for the first time on August 26, 2026, ten years after it was released as a free download. Post Malone confirmed the reissue in an Instagram post on August 13, 2026, adding that the project will also get its first official vinyl pressing, sold online and through select retailers worldwide while supplies last.

It’s finally here ladies and gentlemen💗😎 𝘼𝙪𝙜𝙪𝙨𝙩 26: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙖𝙥𝙚 will be available on August 26, 2026 in celebration of its ten year anniversary. Streaming on all platforms and available on vinyl for the first time (online and at select retailers worldwide, while… pic.twitter.com/yheDOgtGpO

— Post Malone (@PostMalone) August 13, 2026

What is the Post Malone August 26th mixtape?

August 26th is the mixtape Post Malone released on May 12, 2016, as a free DatPiff download through Republic Records. It ran 10 tracks and roughly 38 minutes, and it was his major label calling card at a point when he had exactly one real hit to his name in “White Iverson.”

The title was never about the release date. It pointed to August 26, 2016, the day his debut album Stoney was originally scheduled to arrive. That album slipped to December 9, 2016, which left the mixtape sitting in the catalog named after a date that never happened. Ten years later, the reissue lands on exactly that date.

Musically it is the clearest snapshot of early Post Malone: sung hooks over trap drums, guitar loops and a lot of reverb, produced mostly by FKi with contributions from Louis Bell, Rex Kudo and Post himself. Louis Bell went on to co-produce nearly every hit Post released afterward. If you want the wider context on the production style, our explainer on what trap music is covers the template FKi was working from.

What is on the August 26th tracklist?

Post Malone shared the tracklist alongside the announcement. It matches the original 2016 sequencing, with no bonus cuts or added features confirmed.

#	Track	Features
1	Never Understand	Larry June
2	Money Made Me Do It	2 Chainz
3	Git Wit U
4	God Damn	FKi 1st
5	Fuck	Jeremih
6	40 Funk
7	Monta	Lil Yachty
8	Hollywood Dreams / Come Down
9	Lonely	Jaden Smith, Teo
10	Oh God

One track has already had a second life. “Money Made Me Do It” with 2 Chainz was pulled onto the deluxe edition of Stoney as a bonus cut, which made it the only piece of the mixtape most listeners could stream legally for the past decade.

Why was the August 26th mixtape never on streaming?

Mixtapes from that era were built without clearance in mind. August 26th leans on samples that were fine for a free DatPiff upload and expensive for a commercial release, including Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” and Travis Scott‘s “Drugs You Should Try It.” Getting a project like that onto Spotify and Apple Music means going back and clearing every one of those uses.

Neither Post Malone nor Republic Records has publicly detailed what changed, so the sample-clearance explanation is context rather than a confirmed reason. What is confirmed is the outcome: the full tape goes up on August 26, 2026.

The vinyl is worth a note too. Post Malone’s post describes it as available on vinyl “for the first time,” and that is true of an official pressing. Unofficial bootleg pressings of August 26th have circulated for years and are listed on Discogs as unauthorized releases, which is part of why demand for a legitimate version built up.

How the mixtape connects to Stoney

The mixtape functions as the demo tape for everything Post Malone became. Stoney arrived on December 9, 2016, debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with 58,000 album-equivalent units, and eventually peaked at No. 4 in October 2017 after more than a year on the chart. It was certified five-times platinum by the RIAA in April 2021, and produced three Diamond-certified singles in “White Iverson,” “Congratulations” with Quavo and “I Fall Apart.”

August 26th is where that sound is still being assembled in public. Reviews at the time were mixed, and the tape has been reassessed more kindly since, largely because the melodic-rap approach it was testing became one of the dominant sounds of the late 2010s.

Where this fits in Post Malone’s 2026

The reissue arrives while Post Malone is publicly circling back toward rap after a country run. On July 16, 2026, he posted studio footage soundtracked by a hip-hop record and wrote that “to a lot of little stinkers that think I’ve forgotten about ole Stoney, I haven’t,” a line Billboard and others read as a signal about what is coming next.

He has also said he plans to release two albums in 2026, discussing a double project titled The Eternal Buzz during a December 2025 Twitch stream. No release date for that album has been announced, and the tracklist and features remain unconfirmed. Putting his rap-era mixtape on streaming in the same year reads as deliberate stage-setting, though Post Malone has not framed it that way himself.

Confirmed vs. unconfirmed

The announcement was short, so it is worth separating what Post Malone actually said from what has been assumed around it.

Detail	Status
Streaming release on August 26, 2026	Confirmed by Post Malone
Available on all streaming platforms	Confirmed by Post Malone
First official vinyl pressing, pre-order at postmalone.com	Confirmed by Post Malone
10-track sequencing unchanged from 2016	Confirmed via posted tracklist
Vinyl pricing, variants and pressing quantity	Not announced
Whether original samples survive the streaming version	Not announced
Bonus tracks, remixes or new features	Not announced
Any tie-in to The Eternal Buzz	Speculation

Why the vinyl matters for European fans

The wording in the announcement is “online and at select retailers worldwide, while supplies last,” which is standard language for a limited pressing rather than an open run. No European distributor or retailer list has been published, and no pricing has been shared for any territory.

For anyone in Europe, that puts the pressure on the direct pre-order. Anniversary pressings tied to a specific date tend to sell through the artist store first, with third-party stock arriving later and inconsistently, and the bootleg market around August 26th means secondary listings will not be a reliable fallback. Import duties and shipping are the usual catch on a US artist store order, so the total is worth checking before committing.

What to watch next

The reissue goes live on August 26, 2026 across streaming platforms, with vinyl pre-orders open now at postmalone.com. Three things are worth tracking between now and then: whether the streaming version arrives with the samples intact or with tracks altered, whether a European retail list or a second pressing gets announced, and whether the anniversary rollout leads directly into news on The Eternal Buzz. None of the three has been confirmed.