The GTA 6 soundtrack arrives with the game on November 19, 2026. Right now it is a pile of separate announcements spread over three years of trailers. This post is for players, streamers and video makers who want it all in one place: every song Rockstar has confirmed for Grand Theft Auto VI so far, what is on GTA VI: The Album, which radio stations have names, who wrote the score and which songs played in the trailers. Then we cover the part the hype posts skip, which is what all that licensed music does to your stream.
The album has 34 tracks. Nine are public. The other 25 are, as far as anyone outside Rockstar can tell, in witness protection.
The GTA 6 soundtrack comes in four separate parts
People say “the GTA 6 soundtrack” and mean four different things. So the lists online contradict each other, and half the arguments in comment sections are really about which part someone means.
The first part is GTA VI: The Album, a record of original songs written for the game. The second is the in-game radio: stations with DJs, adverts and mostly existing songs licensed from labels. Third comes the score, the instrumental music under missions and chases. Last is the trailer music, picked for marketing.
The album and the radio overlap less than you’d think. Vice points out that the album collects original songs made for the game, while the radio stations will likely carry many licensed tracks that never reach the standalone record. So a song you hear in a car is not automatically on the GTA 6 soundtrack album. The reverse holds too. The score sits apart as well: Rockstar presents it and the radio as distinct parts of the game’s music, and it has not said whether Justice touched the radio programming.
We’ll admit it. Our first attempt at one master playlist put Phil Collins on the album and Travis Scott on the radio. Both were wrong, which is what you get for building playlists at 2 a.m. We fixed it by giving each part its own tab. The spreadsheet now has four tabs and a fifth called “unclear”, which is the biggest.
GTA VI: The Album has 34 original songs, and nine are out
Rockstar Games announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album as a companion record with 34 original tracks, due on November 19. Consequence reported the launch on September 17, when the first six songs went out to all major streaming services.
The label partner is Atlantic. Variety notes that Rockstar and Atlantic Records have been steadily dropping songs, most recently Cardi B’s “Don’t Chart” and Fuerza Regida’s “Suzuki” the week before the launch trailer. That makes a major label the home of the GTA 6 soundtrack album, which matters later when we get to claims. Then the launch trailer added one more song.
The nine album songs you can play today
These are the album songs public as of October 24:
- “That’s It” by Yung Lean featuring Future and Metro Boomin
- “RHYNO” by Travis Scott
- “Sexy Magic” by CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and Etienne de Crécy
- “Last Thing You Need” by Morgan Wallen
- “Macacoa 2000” by Rauw Alejandro
- “Bright Lights, Big City” by Keith Richards
- “Don’t Chart” by Cardi B
- “Suzuki” by Fuerza Regida
- “Flower in a Hurricane” by Justice featuring Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
One credit deserves a second look. Travis Scott’s “RHYNO” was produced by Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, which makes a GTA album the likeliest place to hear new work from half of Daft Punk this year. Nobody had that on their bingo card.
NME confirms the full tracklist is still unannounced. So 25 songs on the GTA 6 soundtrack album have no names yet, and if the pattern holds, most will appear on launch day.
The GTA 6 soundtrack on vinyl ships a day after the game
The album also exists as an object. Fans who want the GTA 6 soundtrack on a shelf can pre-order a double-vinyl edition, two transparent magenta records with blue splatter, which Vice lists at $49.98. It ships on November 20, 2026. That’s one day after the game.
Magenta with blue splatter is less a colour scheme than a crime scene at a Vice City sunset, which may well be the point. We spent ten minutes arguing whether a splatter vinyl counts as foreshadowing. Then someone asked whether the blue was the police. Anyway.
Six GTA VI radio stations have hosts and 18 preview songs
This is the part of the GTA 6 soundtrack long-time fans actually care about, because the radio has always been half the series’ personality. Rockstar revealed six stations in a Newswire post on October 8. It also opened an official GTA VI music page where each station plays a two-minute preview of three songs, so 18 tracks in total.
The host list, per Game Rant, reads like a casting director’s fever dream. Bad Bunny and RaiNao host Cocoteo FM, the modern Latin station, as El Martillo and La Gata. Country goes to Back Country Radio. Its hosts are Morgan Wallen and Lana Del Rey, appearing as MW and Delta Dawne, a pairing nobody predicted and everybody will screenshot. Burna Boy and Palms Trax run AfroBank FM (African classics, amapiano, 3-step). Metal gets Slayer. Specifically, Kerry King and Tom Araya host The Chamber 106.6, while Robyn and Alex Consani bring back Vice City’s Flash FM and Trick Daddy and Trina take Dirty South Classics.
The previews name real songs too. gHacks lists Bad Bunny’s “EoO” on Cocoteo FM, Loretta Lynn and David Allan Coe on Back Country Radio, Black Sabbath, Pantera and Slayer on The Chamber, plus Charli xcx, MGMT, and Zara Larsson with PinkPantheress on Flash FM.
Eight more genres are on the GTA 6 soundtrack list without a station yet
Six is only the first batch. The announcement also confirms classic rock and talk radio, as GamesRadar notes. KeenGamer adds that Rockstar’s post on X lists Classic Rock, Modern Hip-Hop, Dance, ’80s, Electronic, Blues, Ballads and Talk Radio, none with a named station so far. So the six stations are a sample, and the full GTA 6 soundtrack radio will be bigger.
There is a new format as well. Rockstar says GTA VI is the first game in the series with on-demand podcasts, and radio and podcasts play in vehicles and on foot through earbuds connected to the characters’ phones. Sounds cute. For streamers it changes things, and we’ll come back to it.
Every GTA 6 trailer song on the soundtrack so far
Rockstar has been seeding the GTA 6 soundtrack through its marketing since 2023. Every video added names. Here is the full run.
Trailer 1 and Trailer 2 went for older songs
Trailer 1 (December 2023) used Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road”, a deep cut that suddenly became one of the most searched songs of that week.
Trailer 2 (May 2025) leads with “Hot Together” by The Pointer Sisters, written by Sharon Robinson and first released in 1986, according to GameSpot. PC Gamer also picks out “Child Support” by Zenglen, “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” by Wang Chung and “Talkin’ to Myself Again” by Tammy Wynette from the footage.
The pattern is easy to read. Both trailers chose songs a lot of viewers had never heard, then let the internet do the searching. It’s the same trick the series’ radio has always played, because a track you’d skip on a playlist sounds very different on a bridge at sunset with the police two cars behind.
An Extended Look and the launch trailer added the most
An Extended Look (August 2026) carried the biggest batch. SVG counted 14 confirmed tracks: Birdman featuring Lil Wayne’s “Pop Bottles”, Sexyy Red and Tay Keith’s “Pound Town”, Kodak Black’s “Skrilla”, The Bellamy Brothers’ “Let Your Love Flow”, Def Leppard’s “Love Bites”, Depeche Mode’s “People Are People”, Captain & Tennille’s “But I Think It’s a Dream”, Prefab Sprout’s “Cars and Girls”, Chk Chk Chk’s “Off the Grid” with Meah Pace, Cliff Richard’s “Devil Woman”, Chimbala and Omega’s “Se Me Nota (Agarrame)”, Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds”, Aluna and Jayda G’s “Mine O’ Mine” and Elderbrook with Bob Moses’ “Inner Light”.
The launch trailer (October 15, 2026) debuted “Flower in a Hurricane” from score composers Justice, per Rockstar’s own post. Forbes places it after Trailer 1 in December 2023, Trailer 2 in May 2025 and the extended look in August.
One caveat, and it’s ours. Rockstar has not published a full radio tracklist, and trailer edits sometimes use music purely for the edit. Until launch, a trailer song is a strong hint that it belongs to the GTA 6 soundtrack. Not a contract.
Justice wrote the GTA 6 soundtrack’s score, and it reacts to what you do
The score is the GTA 6 soundtrack part you never pick on a dial. It plays under the action. Electronic duo Justice composed the original dynamic score, Rockstar revealed on October 15, as EDM.com reported, and it is designed to adapt to gameplay.
“Dynamic” means the music is built from parts that change with the situation. Quiet driving gets one texture. A police chase gets more drums, more tension and a higher pulse, and the switch happens without a jarring cut. Music Times adds that this is the duo’s first video game score.
People had heard it before they knew who made it. According to Billboard, the press release confirmed the fan theory that the score heard in August’s extended look came from Justice. More details are promised before the November 19 release.
For players, this means no two chases sound quite alike. For editors, it means a clip cut at the wrong moment ends on a musical cliff, since the score was following the game and not your timeline. Cut around the action peaks instead, and the music usually lands with them.
If you build games yourself, this is the interesting bit of the whole rollout. A score that follows game states is a design problem as much as a composing one, and we wrote up how to build an adaptive score from game states without a Justice-sized budget.
The GTA 6 soundtrack has a streaming problem nobody has announced a fix for
Now for the 2 a.m. part. GTA VI will be streamed by roughly everyone with a capture card. Its radio is full of licensed recordings, and a publisher’s licence to put a song in a game is not a licence for you to broadcast it. Twitch and YouTube don’t read the game’s paperwork. They match audio.
Every licensed song on the GTA 6 soundtrack radio is one an audio-matching system can recognise. The on-foot feature makes it worse, because players get earbuds that keep tracks playing outside the car, as Neowin reports. In older games, getting out of the car killed the music. Here, Bad Bunny can follow you into a shop.
Rockstar’s official music posts so far (the album, the radio post, the score news) say nothing about a streamer mode that swaps out licensed tracks. Maybe one exists. Maybe it’s waiting in a patch note. Until Rockstar says so on its own pages, plan as if it doesn’t.
The album songs aren’t a safe harbour either. They were written for the game, but they’re also major-label singles on every streaming service, and we’d expect them to be fingerprinted like any other release. “It’s from the game” won’t win a dispute.
We’re not exaggerating for effect. In Mubert’s own data from the last 28 days, about one in four uploads run through our copyright checker came back with a rights holder’s claim (25.9%, down slightly from 27.3%). Those were people who already suspected something. A GTA stream with the radio on is an easier case.
We have lost a chunk of VOD to a car radio before. Naturally it was the best chase of the night. Our longer guide to what streamers can actually play on Twitch covers the platform side.
What the GTA 6 soundtrack means for anyone making videos about it
Look past the celebrity hosts and a pattern shows. Rockstar is paying for original music, 34 album tracks plus a full score, in a series that has always leaned on licensed songs. Original music is music you control. It can go on a vinyl, into a trailer and into a dynamic score without a fresh negotiation every time.
Creators covering the GTA 6 soundtrack face the same problem on a smaller budget. The gameplay is the content. Everything around it still needs audio you’re allowed to use: the intro, the BRB screen, the recap edit, the “top 10 radio moments” video with music under the voiceover. Song choice was never the hard part. Coverage is.
Here’s how we’d split it. Play with the game audio on, radio down and the score low. Then put your own track under everything you make afterwards, since that’s the audio a platform will judge without the game around it. A ten-minute recap with a generated bed under the voice is deeply boring to a rights database, which is exactly what you want from a rights database.
One option is generating it. Mubert Render takes a description of a mood, genre, tempo or video and returns an original track at the exact length you need, built from samples that human artists uploaded and get paid for. The scope of commercial use depends on the plan, so read yours. It won’t sound like Flash FM, and that’s fine: Flash FM belongs to someone else. For the editing side, here’s how to make music fit your video length exactly.
Keep the in-game radio for playing. For broadcasting, assume it’s borrowed.
A checklist for GTA 6 soundtrack week
- Bookmark Rockstar’s GTA VI music page.
- Save the nine public album songs to a playlist now, so you notice the moment the other 25 land on streaming services.
- Mute in-game radio in your stream profile.
- Run a private test stream on foot with the in-game earbuds playing, and check if your mute setting actually catches that audio too.
- Prepare intro, outro and BRB music before launch day.
- Put every edited clip that has game radio anywhere in it through a copyright check before it goes to YouTube, TikTok or Twitch.
- Trust only Rockstar’s own patch notes on streamer mode.
On November 19 the other 25 album tracks come out of witness protection. Give them the same check before they go anywhere near your stream.
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