Grand Theft Auto VI is getting a soundtrack built to exist well beyond the game. Rockstar Games and Atlantic Records have announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, a 34-song collection of original music featuring Travis Scott, Keith Richards, PinkPantheress, Yung Lean, Morgan Wallen and more.
Six songs arrived on September 17th as the first preview, including a Travis Scott track produced by Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and “Bright Lights, Big City,” a new Keith Richards recording rooted in a blues song first released more than 60 years ago.
Rockstar will release the complete album on November 19th alongside GTA VI. The official album page confirms 34 original tracks, with digital streaming, CD and several vinyl editions planned.
For a series famous for filling fictional radio stations with carefully licensed music, the strategy marks an important expansion. Rockstar is not simply assembling another enormous catalog for players to hear while driving through Vice City. It has partnered with Atlantic to create a standalone record that can be streamed, collected on vinyl and heard without ever turning on the game.
Six Songs Introduce the GTA VI Album
Rockstar is keeping most of the 34-song lineup under wraps, but the first six releases already cover a striking amount of musical ground.
- Yung Lean featuring Future and Metro Boomin — “That’s It”
- Travis Scott — “RHYNO,” produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
- CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and Etienne de Crécy — “Sexy Magic”
- Morgan Wallen — “Last Thing You Need”
- Rauw Alejandro — “Macacoa 2000”
- Keith Richards — “Bright Lights, Big City”
Rather than clustering around one obvious GTA sound, those selections move between rap, country, Latin music, electronic pop and blues-rooted rock.
Wallen gives the opening batch a direct country entry with “Last Thing You Need,” while Rauw Alejandro extends the album into Latin music with “Macacoa 2000.” Put beside Richards’ blues lineage and the electronic collision behind “Sexy Magic,” their presence makes the breadth of the project clearer without requiring every artist to occupy a separate section.
Rockstar announced the six singles as the first look at what it calls a “genre-defying” roster. Twenty-eight songs remain undisclosed.
Before September 17th, artists including Scott, PinkPantheress, Richards, Future, Metro Boomin and Yung Lean had posted GTA-styled imagery that prompted soundtrack speculation without explaining exactly how they were involved.
Rockstar’s announcement finally separated those teasers from the much larger pool of supposed GTA VI soundtrack leaks that has circulated online. These six tracks are not rumors or inferred radio placements. They are officially released recordings from a confirmed 34-song album.
Travis Scott Gets a Daft Punk Connection
One production credit immediately jumps out of the first six songs.
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo produced Travis Scott’s “RHYNO,” giving the track a direct connection to one half of Daft Punk. Rockstar places that credit prominently beside the song on its official singles list.
For Scott, Grand Theft Auto is familiar territory. His music has appeared elsewhere in Rockstar’s GTA universe, but “RHYNO” gives him newly created material tied directly to the standalone album for GTA VI.
Scott also teased the collaboration before Rockstar formally announced it, using GTA VI imagery while describing his return to the game world in characteristically high-energy terms. The post helped turn a possible soundtrack appearance into something fans were actively trying to decode before the six songs arrived.
De Homem-Christo’s involvement gives “RHYNO” another layer. Since Daft Punk ended in 2021, neither member has treated his post-duo career like a conventional continuation of the group. A production credit connecting one of them with Scott on a major Rockstar release therefore stands out well beyond the game itself.
Pitchfork highlights the de Homem-Christo credit among the most notable details of the first soundtrack reveal.
Keith Richards Goes Back to Jimmy Reed
Keith Richards supplies the oldest musical lineage among the six preview tracks.
“Bright Lights, Big City” reaches back to Jimmy Reed’s 1961 blues recording, a natural source for a guitarist whose musical identity has been inseparable from American blues since the Rolling Stones began recording in the early 1960s.
Rockstar lists Richards as the performer on the new version, which is already available as a standalone soundtrack single.
Richards’ presence also stretches the generational range of the album considerably. He was recording with the Rolling Stones decades before several of the other announced contributors were born, yet his track now sits beside new music from Travis Scott, PinkPantheress, Rauw Alejandro and Yung Lean.
That collision is particularly suited to Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar’s fictional radio stations have always allowed music from different decades and scenes to coexist, letting players move from classic rock to contemporary rap, dance music or country simply by changing stations.
GTA VI: The Album applies some of that same programming instinct to newly recorded music rather than relying entirely on licensed catalog songs.
“Sexy Magic” Packs Five Artists Into One Track
Few of the first six releases demonstrate the collaborative ambition more clearly than “Sexy Magic.”
Argentine duo CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso share the recording with PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and French electronic producer Etienne de Crécy. Five distinct artists or acts therefore occupy one soundtrack track, connecting Latin alternative music, internet-era pop and several generations of electronic production.
PinkPantheress is an especially natural fit for a project sitting between music, gaming and online culture. Her compact songwriting and dance-derived production already move comfortably through the same digital spaces where game clips, songs and short-form video routinely overlap.
Fred again.. brings his own club and electronic vocabulary, while de Crécy connects the track to the French house movement that emerged during the 1990s. CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso prevent the collaboration from settling neatly into either British pop or European dance music.
The lineup alone makes “Sexy Magic” one of the album’s clearest examples of Rockstar treating genre boundaries as something to cross rather than organize around.
Music Business Worldwide notes that Atlantic Records is releasing the project in partnership with Rockstar, placing these collaborations inside the conventional record business as well as the gaming world.
Instead of existing solely as audio assets buried inside a game, the songs are being released through the same streaming and physical channels used for a major-label album.
Yung Lean and Future Meet Metro Boomin
“That’s It” brings Yung Lean together with Future and Metro Boomin, a combination that becomes more interesting once the track’s production is placed against GTA VI’s South Florida setting.
Metro’s production combines trap percussion with electric guitar and synth textures, while Yung Lean and Future move through the record without forcing it into the shape of a conventional maximalist rap single.
In its assessment of the track, Pitchfork hears echoes of Jan Hammer and Miami Vice, a connection that fits neatly with Rockstar’s return to a fictionalized South Florida.
Vice City has always depended heavily on music to establish place. The original 2002 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City became inseparable from its 1980s radio soundtrack, using pop, rock, new wave, metal, dance music and hip-hop to make the city feel tied to a particular cultural moment.
“That’s It” takes a different route. Guitar and synth textures can gesture toward that Miami lineage while Metro’s contemporary production keeps the record firmly outside an exercise in 1980s nostalgia.
That is a more interesting musical possibility for GTA VI than simply recreating the soundtrack vocabulary of the earlier Vice City game.
The Album Is Separate From GTA Radio
One distinction in Rockstar’s announcement is easy to miss: the 34-song album is not the complete musical universe of Grand Theft Auto VI.
Details about the game’s radio stations have not yet been revealed. Rockstar says information about the “next evolution of in-game radio” is still coming, along with details about the dynamic score.
So the 34 original recordings should not be treated as the entire GTA VI soundtrack in the broadest sense. Additional licensed music is expected to be part of the radio experience, although Rockstar has not announced the stations or a complete list of songs.
Previous GTA games have treated radio as much more than background music. Stations have hosts, commercials, talk segments and deliberately constructed genre identities, often putting obscure recordings beside enormous hits and introducing older music to players encountering it for the first time.
That reach can extend beyond the game. Songs used in GTA VI promotional material have already experienced sharp streaming increases after appearing in trailers, showing how quickly a Rockstar placement can redirect attention toward an existing recording.
Separating the original album from the still-unrevealed radio system gives Rockstar two different musical tools. One commissions new music that belongs specifically to GTA VI; the other can continue the series’ tradition of using licensed songs to make Vice City feel like a functioning cultural space.
Rockstar Is Treating the Soundtrack Like an Album
Physical editions make Rockstar’s intentions especially clear.
When Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19th, its companion album will be released on streaming services, CD and vinyl. Rockstar is also offering several collectible versions rather than treating physical media as an afterthought.
Among them is a limited-edition liquid-filled vinyl alongside a splatter pressing and a traditional CD jewel case. Exclusive vinyl colorways and artwork will also be distributed through retailers and independent record stores, Rockstar confirms.
Combined with six advance singles, a pre-save campaign and an artist lineup that remains mostly secret, the physical rollout looks much closer to a major record release than a conventional game soundtrack listing.
Six of the album’s 34 tracks are available now. Rockstar still has 28 songs, the game’s radio stations and details of its dynamic score left to reveal before Grand Theft Auto VI and its companion album arrive November 19th.