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.

[2] 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.

[3][4][5] 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.

[6] "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".

[9] 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.

1 debuts on Billboard Hot 100 history, "Fortnight" and "I Had Some Help" within just four weeks, after Drake previously achieved the feat with the first two singles from his "For All the Dogs" album in 2023.

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".

[19][14][15] 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.

[27] On May 16, 2024, Malone performed the song at 59th Academy of Country Music Awards in Frisco, Texas.