Stoney is the debut studio album by American rapper Post Malone. It was released on December 9, 2016, by Republic Records.

The album features guest appearances from Justin Bieber, Kehlani, Quavo and 2 Chainz. The production on the album was handled by Metro Boomin, Vinylz, Frank Dukes, Illangelo, Charlie Handsome, Rex Kudo and Foreign Teck, among others.[1][2][3] The album debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 and later reached number four. Stoney was certified double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

On August 14, 2015, Post Malone released his debut single, titled "White Iverson". The single became his breakthrough song. Due to his success with that single, Malone collaborated with a number of prominent rappers such as Petal Aggression, Young Thug and Kanye West, among others.[4][5] Malone and Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber verge into this friendship, when Bieber made Malone as one of the opening acts for his Purpose World Tour to support the release of his album, Purpose (2015).[6]
On June 9, 2016, Malone made his national television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, performing a track, called "Go Flex".[7] In June 2016, XXL editor-in chief Vanessa Satten, revealed that Malone was considered to be on XXL's "2016's Freshmen Class" magazine cover, however, she was "told by his camp that he wasn't paying attention to hip hop so much. He was going into more of a rock / pop / country direction."[8] Malone denied these claims, saying: "My love of music should never be questioned... I shouldn't be chastised in whichever way I see fit." He went on to explain that his latest mixtape, as well as his upcoming album are both hip hop: "I have a hip-hop album coming out in August... I made a HIP HOP mixtape promoting my HIP HOP album."[9]
In May 2016, in preparation for the release of Stoney, Malone released his debut mixtape, titled August 26th. The name was a reference to the original release date for Stoney, however, the album suffered numerous delays.

Comparing the album to Malone's debut single, "White Iverson", Glenn Gamboa of Newsday wrote that he "follows through with that style on Stoney, but it generally pales in comparison to the inventiveness and the surprise of that track."[21] Neil Yeung of AllMusic commented that Stoney is "competent and listenable, but many others have tread this same path already. Post Malone has a way to go before standing out with his own unique voice, but there are signs on Stoney that it could happen."[18]

Stoney debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 with 58,000 album-equivalent units, of which 19,000 were pure album sales.[23] The album sold an additional 30,000 units in its second week of sales.[24] On October 19, 2017, the album was certified double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over two million units.[25] On the week of October 28, 2017, the album peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200.[26] By the end of 2017, Stoney had sold 1,409,000 album-equivalent units with 122,000 being pure sales.[27]