Grand Theft Auto VI has finally got an official soundtrack to go with it, and Atlantic Records didn’t just phone in a few big names to sell the idea. GTA VI: The Album was confirmed on 17 September as a 34-track record built specifically for the game, arriving on the same day as Grand Theft Auto VI itself: 19 November 2026.
Six songs are out now as a taster, and the line-up is the real story here. Travis Scott opens with ‘RHYNO’, produced by Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, which alone is a small event for anyone who thought that partnership would never happen. Morgan Wallen turns up with ‘Last Thing You Need’, Keith Richards contributes a solo cut called ‘Bright Lights, Big City’, and Rauw Alejandro brings ‘Macacoa 2000’. Swedish rapper Yung Lean features Future and Metro Boomin on ‘That’s It’, while the most interesting credit on the list belongs to Argentine duo CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, who share ‘Sexy Magic’ with PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and French producer Étienne de Crecy.
That’s a genuinely international spread for a game soundtrack: an Argentine pair who are still breaking into English-language markets sitting on a tracklist next to a Rolling Stone and one of hip hop’s biggest names, with a Swedish rapper, a Puerto Rican reggaeton star and a British pop producer filling out the rest. It’s exactly the kind of billing this site exists to point at, because good music doesn’t need a passport, and Atlantic clearly agrees. In its joint statement with Rockstar Games, the label said it had assembled “a global roster of today’s most meaningful artists, curating wide-ranging original music that deepens the next chapter” of the Grand Theft Auto universe.
The other 28 tracks stay under wraps for now, which is its own kind of tease. GTA’s in-game radio stations have spent nearly three decades acting as an accidental education in genres players might never otherwise have stumbled across, from old-school soul to underground hip hop to European dance music, and this is the first time Rockstar and a major label have built that experience from scratch as a commissioned album rather than licensing songs that already existed. Whether the remaining tracklist leans further towards emerging names or keeps stacking marquee ones will say a lot about how seriously that tradition is being taken this time round.
For collectors, Atlantic is also leaning hard into physical formats: liquid-filled vinyl and a splatter-vinyl edition through Atlantic itself, plus separate exclusive pressings and posters at Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, Target, Barnes & Noble, Urban Outfitters and independent record shops, alongside a standard CD jewel case. Pre-orders and streaming pre-saves opened alongside the announcement on 17 September.
With the game and the album dropping together on 19 November, there’s two months for the remaining tracklist to leak, get teased, or stay a genuine surprise. Either way, it’s rare for a soundtrack this size to make room for artists still building an audience outside their home countries, and that alone is worth watching.
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