Leonida Press
ExplainersUpdated October 19, 2026

GTA 6 soundtrack: the six songs Rockstar has confirmed

Correction, 8 October 2026. When this page was published on 1 October it said that Rockstar had named no station, no frequency and no host, and that the word radio appeared on none of its GTA 6 pages. On 8 October Rockstar named six stations, the voices on them and one dial position, and rewrote its music page around them. Those passages have been rewritten and the new announcement is covered in full in our news post on the six stations. The distinction this page is built on survives the announcement, and the section below on what a station announcement looks like has been corrected rather than deleted, because it got the shape of it wrong.

Correction, 19 October 2026. This page said the dynamic score was the one thing Rockstar had promised and not delivered, and that no composer had been named. Rockstar named Justice as the composers of the score on 15 October 2026, alongside the launch trailer. The passages above have been rewritten and the page now records what Rockstar has said and the one wording change it made.

If you came here for a full GTA 6 radio station list, with every song on every station, nobody has one. Six stations now have names and three credited songs apiece. That is a long way short of the lists currently being published.

What exists is two separate things, and they get run together constantly. Rockstar has announced an album, and named six songs on it. It has separately named six radio stations, and credited three licensed songs inside each station’s preview. Those are different products, Rockstar treats them separately, and almost every headline announcing a revealed GTA 6 soundtrack is about the first while readers arrive wanting the second.

Here is the whole confirmed position on 8 October 2026, six weeks before launch.

What has actually been announced

Rockstar announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album on 17 September 2026. In its own words it is “the upcoming official soundtrack album created in partnership with Atlantic Records and launching November 19 alongside Grand Theft Auto VI”.

The album runs to 34 tracks. Rockstar’s music page describes it this way: “With 34 original tracks that capture the electric energy of Grand Theft Auto VI’s world of Vice City and Leonida, Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album features a genre-defying roster of the most exciting artists in the world.”

Six of those 34 have names. The other 28 do not. Three weeks on from the announcement, that has not changed, and Rockstar has published no album track list anywhere.

The six songs

These are the six, exactly as Rockstar credits them:

  • “That’s It”, Yung Lean, featuring Future and Metro Boomin
  • “RHYNO”, Travis Scott, produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
  • “Sexy Magic”, CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and Etienne de Crécy
  • “Last Thing You Need”, Morgan Wallen
  • “Macacoa 2000”, Rauw Alejandro
  • “Bright Lights, Big City”, Keith Richards

Rockstar released all six on the day it announced the album, telling readers to “Listen to the first six singles today, available across all major music streaming services”. It calls them “six debut singles now that showcase Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album”.

One detail worth having, because it tells you roughly how much of the record is still hidden: on the album’s streaming listing the six named songs sit at positions 2, 4, 5, 8, 11 and 32. So the gaps are not all bunched at the end. They run right through the sequence, including a run of twenty consecutive unnamed slots in the middle.

Three of the six carry an explicit marking on the streaming services, and the album carries one at album level. That is a music industry advisory label, and it is not a game content rating. If the rating is what you are after, the parents’ guide to GTA 6 covers which bodies have actually rated this game.

Why the album is not the radio

This is the part that matters most, and Rockstar said it itself. The album announcement closes: “Stay tuned for more details about the music of Grand Theft Auto VI, including the dynamic score, the next evolution of in-game radio, and more.”

Read that carefully. Rockstar was naming three things. The album, which it had already detailed. The dynamic score. And the in-game radio. The company that made the game was telling you, in a sentence at the bottom of its own press announcement, that it had described one third of the picture.

All three now exist. The radio arrived on 8 October: six stations named, the voices on each, one frequency, and a playable preview per station carrying three credited songs. The score followed on 15 October, when Rockstar published the launch trailer and named Justice as its composers. Note the change of word, because Rockstar made it rather than us: September promised a “dynamic score”, and the October pages say “original score” and head the new section “Official Score by Justice”. The phrase “dynamic score” is no longer anywhere on Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto VI pages.

The distinction still does real work, though, because the two announcements do not overlap in the way people assume. Rockstar has not said that any of the six album singles plays on any of the six stations, and the eighteen songs credited in the station previews are a different eighteen songs. Nor are those previews a station playlist: they are a few minutes of mixed audio with the presenters talking over the joins. So a GTA 6 station lineup, in the sense of what actually plays on a station in the finished game, is still somebody’s compilation rather than something Rockstar has published.

What a Rockstar radio announcement actually looks like

This section was wrong about the form and right about the substance, and it is worth keeping both halves. Before 8 October this page argued that when Rockstar adds a radio station it publishes a post with the station, its dial position and its host in the headline, on the evidence of the last two times it did so in GTA V.

Those two examples are real, and both are Rockstar’s own: “New GTAV Radio Station: blonded Los Santos 97.8 with Frank Ocean & More”, which opens by describing “a brand new radio station now available on your Los Santos radio dial. blonded Los Santos 97.8FM hosted by Frank Ocean, Vegyn, Roof Access and Fed”. And “Still Slipping Los Santos, K.U.L.T. 99.1 FM and The Music Locker Coming to the Radio Dial”, which announces “three new radio stations” alongside the opening of a venue and “its new slate of resident DJs”.

GTA 6 did not follow that pattern. The 8 October announcement is headlined “The Music of Grand Theft Auto VI: In-Game Radio Stations”, which names no station and no frequency at all. Six station names sit in the body, and exactly one of the six carries a dial position: The Chamber 106.6. So the prediction that an announcement would be unmistakable held, and the prediction about its shape did not. Rockstar named six stations at once, in an album style announcement, with the frequencies almost entirely absent.

Rockstar’s album vocabulary is just as consistent, and just as separate. For GTA V it used “The Music of Grand Theft Auto V”, across a “Three Volume Digital Album Now Available on iTunes” and a “Limited Edition Soundtrack CD and Vinyl Box Sets Coming this December”. For GTA 6 the branding has changed to “The Album”, but the distinction between a record you buy and a dial you tune has not.

What Rockstar did last time

Red Dead Redemption 2 is the clearest recent precedent, and Rockstar documented all of it on its own site.

There were two albums, not one, released four weeks apart. “The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2: Original Soundtrack” arrived on 12 July 2019 with 13 tracks, “Presented in collaboration with Lakeshore Records” and, as a later Rockstar post puts it, “Produced by 11-time Grammy Award winner Daniel Lanois”. “The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2: Original Score” followed on 9 August 2019 with 22 tracks, which Rockstar describes as “the award-winning interactive score composed by longtime Rockstar collaborator Woody Jackson”. Songs first, score second.

Both were seeded with named singles during the pre-order window. The soundtrack arrived with “Crash of Worlds” by Rocco DeLuca and “Table Top” by Daniel Lanois “available to download immediately with all pre-orders”. The score had three: “Outlaws From The West”, “Fleeting Joy” and “Country Pursuits”. A third release, The Housebuilding EP, followed in February 2021, built around what Rockstar calls the “fan-favorite” “The Housebuilding Song”.

Physical formats trailed digital by months and were deliberately scarce. The score came “to Vinyl and CD as a one-time-only, limited release on April 10th”, sold through Invada Records as well as Rockstar’s own store, while the soundtrack vinyl went through Lakeshore’s, with Rockstar’s own taking over once Lakeshore’s pre-orders sold out.

The one way GTA 6 clearly breaks that pattern is timing, and it is the most interesting thing in this whole subject. Red Dead Redemption 2’s albums landed long after the game was in players’ hands, well after its score had already won awards. GTA 6’s album lands on launch day, 19 November, the same date as the game. Rockstar has moved the record from a months-later release to a day-one one. The radio details have been pulled forward as well, arriving six weeks before launch. On that evidence the score album may land before the game too, though Rockstar has still not given it a date. It has now committed to one: the launch trailer announcement closes by promising more on the music, “including the official score album”.

If you want to own it

The physical album is not sold by Rockstar. Since 8 October the Rockstar Store has listed four of the album’s editions in its GTA VI collection, but their pre-order buttons link straight out to Atlantic’s shop, as Rockstar’s own music page does.

That shop has five editions. A CD is $19.98 and vinyl is $49.98, each in two versions, and there is a limited edition at $124.98 which is already showing as sold out. The pressings are the difference: “two transparent magenta discs with blue splatter” on one vinyl, “two standard weight black vinyl records” on the other, and “two transparent magenta discs filled with blue liquid” on the limited one.

Three of those five are exclusive to that shop, and Rockstar says which: “a limited-edition liquid-filled vinyl, a splatter-edition vinyl, and a CD jewel case”. So if one of those three is what you want, there is only one place to get it.

If you would rather not buy direct, Rockstar also promises “exclusive vinyl disc colorways, each featuring unique new art” at Blood Records, Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, Urban Outfitters and independent record shops. Which colourway belongs to which retailer has not been published, so there is no way yet to decide between them on anything but convenience.

One practical catch applies to all of it. Every edition on Atlantic’s shop is listed as shipping on 20 November 2026, the day after the game comes out. If you want the music on launch day itself, that means streaming or a digital copy rather than a parcel. This release has several dates that are easy to run together, and the editions and pre-order guide sets them out.

No running order has been published on any of these listings. A vinyl sleeve normally carries one. This one does not, yet, which is the same gap as the missing 28 titles seen from a different angle.

What is still unknown

Stated plainly, because the gaps are the real story here:

  • 28 of the 34 album tracks, and every artist on them.
  • The score album. Justice are named as the composers, on 15 October. Rockstar has published no release date for the score album, and has not said whether the original score it credits them with is the dynamic score it promised in September.
  • How many radio stations there are. The 8 October announcement describes itself as “a look at six of the stations featured”, and names no total.
  • Every frequency except one. The Chamber 106.6 is the only dial position Rockstar has printed for this game.
  • What actually plays on any station. Three songs per station have been credited inside a preview. A station’s playlist has not been published.
  • Whether any of the six album singles is in the game. They are on the record. Rockstar has not said they play on a station, and none of them appears in the station previews.
  • A running order for the album in any format.

Rockstar has committed itself to saying more on the score, so that is a thing to wait for rather than a thing to fill in. On the radio it has now said a good deal, and the useful reading of it is that naming a station is not the same as publishing its playlist.

For what Rockstar has and has not published about the state those stations broadcast across, see what Rockstar has actually said about Leonida and Vice City.

Sources

Every one of these was opened first-hand, the Rockstar Store collection on 9 October 2026, the radio announcement on 8 October 2026 and the rest on 1 October 2026.