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"I Had Some Help" is a song by American musician Post Malone featuring American country music singer Morgan Wallen. It was released through Republic and Mercury Records as the lead single from Malone's sixth studio album, F-1 Trillion, on May 10, 2024. They wrote the song with producers Louis Bell, Charlie Handsome, and Hoskins, alongside Ernest, Ashley Gorley, and Chandler Paul Walters.

Release and promotion
On March 20, 2024, Malone previewed a snippet of the song through social media after a different snippet of a previous version leaked earlier, which had a problem with the mixing. On May 2, 2024, the two artists took to social media to announce the title of the song and its release date. ==Composition==
Composition
The song is written in the key of C major, with a tempo of 128 beats per minute, the main chord progression is F–C–Am–G. ==Music video==
Music video
On May 10, 2024, Malone and Wallen released the official music video, which was filmed in Joshua Tree, California and directed by Chris Villa, with both artists playing leading roles. ==Commercial performance==
Commercial performance
"I Had Some Help" earned 167 first-week adds at country radio, making it only the second song in history to clear the panel in its first week after Garth Brooks in 1997 with "Longneck Bottle". It also broke Spotify's single-day country streaming record with nearly 14 million streams, debuted at No. 1 on the streaming platform's Global Daily chart and became its top male collaboration debut of all time, in addition to topping Apple Music's Global chart and Pandora's Top Thumb Hundred chart, upon release. The song would notch a second week at number one for the week of July 6, 2024 while Wallen's "Cowgirls" featuring Ernest held the number two position on the Country Airplay chart the same week, making Wallen the third artist in the chart's history to hold the top two positions concurrently. It would remain at the top for two additional weeks before being displaced by "Cowgirls" on the chart dated July 27, 2024, making it the first time that an act has achieved back-to-back number one singles since 2002 when McGraw topped the chart back-to-back, first as a featured artist on Jo Dee Messina's "Bring On the Rain" then with his own "The Cowboy in Me", and only the second time that such a distinction has been achieved in the chart's history. The song currently ranks at No. 4 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart. "I Had Some Help" is the first song to spend its first five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1 since Miley Cyrus' "Flowers", which held the top spot for its first six weeks in January–March 2023. It is also the first song in nearly a year to spend five consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, since Wallen's "Last Night" spent 10 straight weeks at the top out of 16 total weeks in May–July 2023. Additionally, it is the first song to log six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2024, surpassing the five weeks on top, of six total dating to late 2023, for Jack Harlow's "Lovin on Me". Furthermore, it is the first song to have debuted atop both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboards Hot Country Songs chart and spent its first five weeks on each at No. 1. On the US Radio Songs chart, "I Had Some Help" was the fastest song to hit the top five since Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" in 2023. It's also the first song to have reached the top five in as few as four weeks that has also hit the US Country Airplay chart's top five. "I Had Some Help" became the sixth song and the fastest to do so, to top both the US Country Airplay and all-format US Radio Songs charts. ==Usage in media==
Usage in media
The song was featured in the credits of the 2024 Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Venom: The Last Dance, used as a parallel for the toxic relationship between Venom and his symbiotic host Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), even though the pair worked through it and ended up as best friends. == Accolades ==
Live performances
On April 28, 2024, Malone and Wallen both performed their own sets at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, and Wallen brought Malone out to perform the song with him for the first time ahead of its release. On May 16, 2024, Malone performed the song at 59th Academy of Country Music Awards in Frisco, Texas. On May 28, 2024, Malone performed the song at Louvre Museum in Paris. On June 7, 2024, Malone performed the song at Governor's Ball in New York City. ==Personnel==
Personnel
Post Malone – vocals • Morgan Wallen – vocals • Louis Bell – producer, recording engineer, vocal engineer • Charlie Handsome – producer • Hoskins – producer, co-producer • Aaron Sterling – drums • Craig Young – bass guitar • Derek Wells – electric guitar • Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar • Dave Cohen – keyboards • Paul Franklinpedal steel guitarLarry FranklinfiddleRyan GoremixingTed Jensenmastering ==Charts==
Charts
Weekly charts Monthly charts Year-end charts ==Certifications==
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