As Post Malone prepares to launch his nation album F-1 Trillion on Friday, nation artists who’ve labored with him on the album and different tasks are singing his praises. 

“He’s the real deal,” says Keith Urban, who sang  Elvis Presley’s 1959 hit “Baby, What You Want Me to Do” with Post Malone on a 2019 NBC particular in certainly one of Post Malone’s first appearances with a rustic artist. It’s a sentiment shared by others who’ve labored with him.

The new Mercury/Republic set, produced by Charlie Handsome and Louis Bell, options duets with a number of nation stars, together with Dolly Parton, Tim McGraw, Luke Combs, Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Brad Paisley, Jelly Roll and Morgan Wallen, whose collaboration, “I Had Some Help,” topped each the Billboard Hot 100 and Country Airplay charts. Current single, “Pour Me a Drink,” that includes Blake Shelton, climbs to No. 14 with a bullet on Country Airplay for the chart dated Aug. 17, whereas the duet with Combs, “Guy For That,” is No. 36.

HARDY, who duets with Malone on “Hide My Gun” and carried out a Joe Diffie tribute with him and Wallen eventually yr’s CMA Awards, says the singer approached making a rustic album “the right way … He spent months and months of his time in Nashville and immersed himself into the songwriting world and put together a really great record that is  amazing.””

“I just want to hang out, have a beer, listen to your ideas,” Post Malone advised the New York Times, describing how he approaches collaborations. “I feel like there’s a lot of people set in their ways. I just want to make the song work in the best way for the song.”

The solely disadvantage for a few of his writing companions? His late evening hours. In a December interview, Wallen confessed that Post Malone’s studio hours have been arduous for him. “[He] likes to write really, really late at night — and I can’t do that three nights in a row. I can do that one night,” he says with fun. “I can start about 5 p.m., but starting at 10 p.m. — that’s rough.”

For the final a number of months, Malone and his collaborators posted pictures from writing classes and snippets of recent songs. The Dallas native has additionally accomplished a collection of country-only gigs, together with at Stagecoach, a Bud Light-sponsored occasion in Nashville and, this previous weekend, at San Francisco’s Outside Lands pageant. On Wednesday (Aug. 14), he makes his Grand Ole Opry debut. A 21-date F-1 Trillion tour kicks off Sept. 8 in Salt Lake City. 

At his Outside Lands set on Sunday (Aug. 11), Post Malone carried out an endearing, if considerably shambolic cowl of Brooks & Dunn’s 1991 basic “Brand New Man,” the place he forgot among the phrases. Still, it met the approval of the unique duo, who brazenly admit to being followers.

“We were going back and forth about it [Monday night],” says the duo’s Ronnie Dunn. “[Post Malone] goes, ‘I’m so sorry.’ I said, ‘You’ve killed it man.’ And he said, ‘I started reading some guy’s poster and got off on the track and eight Bud Lights didn’t help.’ He’s as cool as they come.”

Dunn notes what a lot of nation artists who’ve labored with Post Malone have noticed: he’s a veritable nation music jukebox. “You see him step out on stage — at The Bluebird Café and stuff — with his guitar and he sings every song verbatim. I’d have to have cue cards all over the floor, but he knows these country songs. He’s like a savant. He’s sincerely a country music fan.”

In addition to his Grand Ole Opry debut, Wednesday say Post Malone obtain 4 nominations for the People’s Choice Country Awards, together with music of 2024 with “I Had Some Help.”