GTA 6 Soundtrack Listening Guide: Stations, Albums and What You Can Play Before Launch

By Emelie Fox, editor at HUDWire · Written November 15, 2026

Music has always been half the personality of a Grand Theft Auto game, and GTA 6 is going big: named artists hosting stations, an album of original songs, and a separate score by the French duo Justice. With launch day on November 19, 2026, there is a lot of noise about what is official and what is leaked. This page sorts it into three simple questions: what will you hear in the game, what can you stream right now, and what is still not confirmed.

1. The six radio stations Rockstar has shown so far

Rockstar's official music page lists six stations, each with its own on-air hosts. More are promised: Rockstar describes the line-up as running "from Classic Rock to Talk Radio", and neither of those genres is among the six below.

Station	Sound	Hosts (voiced by)
Cocoteo FM	Modern Latin: bachata, merengue, dembow, reggaeton	Bad Bunny, RaiNao
Back Country Radio	Renegade country	Morgan Wallen, Lana Del Rey, Jeremy Dufrene
AfroBank FM	African classics, amapiano, 3-step	Burna Boy, Palms Trax
The Chamber 106.6	Metal from the '80s onward	Kerry King and Tom Araya of Slayer
Flash FM	Pop (a returning Vice City name)	Robyn, Alex Consani
Dirty South Classics	Southern rap and hip-hop	Trick Daddy, Trina

Two changes matter for how you will actually listen. First, radio and podcasts now work on foot through earbuds connected to Jason's or Lucia's phone, so the music no longer stops when you leave the car. Second, podcasts are on demand for the first time, while talk stations still run live. HUDWire keeps the full station table, example tracks and sources in its GTA 6 radio stations guide.

2. Two albums, two different jobs

It is easy to mix these up, so here is the short version:

Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album is 34 original songs written for the game by guest artists. Ten of them are already out as singles, including tracks by Travis Scott, Morgan Wallen, Cardi B and Keith Richards.
The original score by Justice is the adaptive music that plays during missions and moments in the game: 30 tracks plus digital bonus tracks, due on December 11, 2026.

Release date check. The album was announced for November 19, launch day. Since then an Apple Music listing and Rolling Stone have given Friday, November 20, and Atlantic's store ships the CD and vinyl on November 20. Rockstar has not posted a change itself, so treat November 20 as likely but not official.

3. Official versus leaked

On November 14 a photo of a vinyl back sleeve showed all 34 album titles, including 24 that had not been announced, with names such as Dua Lipa, JENNIE, Playboi Carti, Lana Del Rey and Burna Boy. Rolling Stone and, according to PC Gamer, Billboard say their sources have confirmed the list. That is strong, but it is still not an official announcement, and a few titles are spelled differently across sources. The complete side-by-side list, with every track marked "single out" or "from sleeve", is in HUDWire's GTA 6 album tracklist.

A simple listening plan for launch week

Now: preview each station on Rockstar's official music page (rockstargames.com/VI/music) and play the ten released singles on your usual streaming service.
Before November 19: pre-save The Album and the Justice score so they land in your library automatically.
Launch night: check when the game unlocks where you live in HUDWire's GTA 6 release time by country table, then hear the stations the way they were meant to be heard, in the game.
If you want zero surprises: skip the leaked titles and let the in-game radio introduce them. Some players treat songs as spoilers too.

For everything else about the game, from editions and price to file size and map, see the HUDWire GTA 6 hub.

Station names, hosts and album formats come from Rockstar's official music page; voice casting from Rockstar's October 8 announcement as reported by Consequence, VGC and Radio Times; leak confirmation from Rolling Stone, Billboard (via PC Gamer), RockstarINTEL and Pro-Gamer.gg, as summarised by HUDWire on November 15, 2026. Written by Emelie Fox for HUDWire, an independent gaming news site.