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GTA 6 Soundtrack: Confirmed Songs & Radio Stations

Every confirmed GTA 6 soundtrack song, the artists behind them, radio stations across GTA history, and what to expect from Vice City's radio at launch.

Rockstar has confirmed six songs so far, all revealed through the two official GTA 6 trailers: Tom Petty's "Love Is a Long Road" in Trailer 1, and five tracks — led by The Pointer Sisters' "Hot Together" — in Trailer 2. No in-game radio station lineup, DJ roster, or full soundtrack has been announced. This page is SixWiki's music hub: every confirmed song, the artists behind them, how GTA radio has evolved across the series, and what history suggests is coming — with confirmed facts and expectations always kept clearly apart.

Every confirmed GTA 6 song, at a glance

SongArtistYearWhere heard
Love Is a Long RoadTom Petty1989Trailer 1 (Dec 2023) — entire trailer
Hot TogetherThe Pointer Sisters1986Trailer 2 (May 2025) — lead track, driving/heist footage
Everybody Have Fun TonightWang Chung1986Trailer 2 (May 2025) — car radio, driving montage
Child SupportZenglen2004Trailer 2 (May 2025) — car radio, driving montage
Talkin' to Myself AgainTammy Wynette1987Trailer 2 (May 2025) — car radio, driving montage
"I Love Rock N Roll" (unconfirmed)Possibly Joan Jett1981Trailer 2 (May 2025) — Ammu-Nation storefront scene

Trailer 1: Tom Petty, "Love Is a Long Road" (December 2023)

The entirety of Trailer 1 is soundtracked by Tom Petty's "Love Is a Long Road," a deep cut from his 1989 solo debut album Full Moon Fever — the same album that produced "Free Fallin'" and "Runnin' Down a Dream." "Love Is a Long Road" was originally released as a B-side and peaked modestly on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart at the time, making its selection for the trailer a deliberate needle-drop choice rather than an obvious hit pick.

The impact was immediate: Petty's official site and Billboard both reported the song jumping to the #2 song worldwide on iTunes and landing Top 10 Shazam results in 20 countries within days of the trailer's release, alongside a large, widely reported spike in Spotify streams.

Grand Theft Auto VI — Trailer 1 (Rockstar Games)

Trailer 2: five songs, headlined by The Pointer Sisters (May 2025)

Trailer 2, released roughly seventeen months later, used a different approach — one lead song carrying most of the footage, plus several songs heard briefly as if playing on car radios during a driving montage, mirroring how music actually plays inside past GTA games.

Grand Theft Auto VI — Trailer 2 (Rockstar Games)

A fifth song, resembling Joan Jett's "I Love Rock N Roll" playing during an Ammu-Nation storefront moment, has been noted by fans and outlets but is not officially confirmed — treat that one as unverified until Rockstar or a rights holder confirms it.

The artists: why these five fit Leonida

Rockstar's trailer picks are never random — each confirmed artist maps onto a piece of Leonida's identity.

Tom Petty was a Gainesville, Florida native — the state's most iconic rock export — which makes "Love Is a Long Road" a literal homecoming as much as a mood-setter. The song's title doubled as a wry nod to the game's long development, and its weathered, open-highway feel matches the trailer's swamps, back roads, and Bonnie-and-Clyde framing of Jason and Lucia.

The Pointer Sisters were one of the defining R&B/pop acts of the 1980s ("I'm So Excited," "Jump (For My Love)," "Automatic"). "Hot Together," the title track of their 1986 album, is sweaty, glossy, horn-driven dance-pop — the exact neon-Miami register the original Vice City built its identity on, now soundtracking its modern revival.

Wang Chung are best remembered for "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," but crime-fiction fans know them for scoring William Friedkin's 1985 neo-noir To Live and Die in L.A. — a film about counterfeiters, pastel skylines, and moral rot that's practically a GTA mood board. Hearing them on a Vice City car radio is a knowing wink at that lineage.

Zenglen are one of the most popular Haitian compas (konpa) bands of the last three decades, with deep roots in South Florida's Haitian community. "Child Support" (2004, from the album 5 Etwal) blasting from a car radio — in a trailer that also shows a Haitian flag mural — signals that Little Haiti-style neighborhoods and Haitian-American culture are woven into Leonida's Vice City, not just background flavor.

Tammy Wynette, the "First Lady of Country Music" ("Stand by Your Man"), represents the other Florida entirely. "Talkin' to Myself Again" (1987, from Higher Ground, written by Jamie O'Hara) is a lonesome honky-tonk ballad — the sound of the rural panhandle counties, trailer parks, and roadside bars the trailers show outside the city. Together the five picks sketch Leonida's full range: beach glamour, Caribbean neighborhoods, and swamp country.

Radio in GTA history: how the stations grew

Since GTA III put a working radio dial in every car in 2001, the licensed radio station has been the series' signature music delivery system — and the lineup has grown with nearly every game. GTA III shipped with 9 stations, Vice City kept 9 but went all-in on licensed 1980s hits, San Andreas expanded to 11 spanning early-90s rap, funk, country, and grunge, GTA IV roughly doubled the scale to around 19 stations including talk radio, and GTA V launched with 17 (15 music plus two talk stations), rising to 19 on PC and past 20 as GTA Online added new stations over the years.

Radio stations at launch, by game
GTA III (2001)9 stations
Vice City (2002)9 stations
San Andreas (2004)11 stations
GTA IV (2008)19 stations
GTA V (2013)17 stations

Vice City's soundtrack is the series' legend: its wall-to-wall 1980s licensing was so celebrated that Epic Records released it as a 7-CD official box set in 2002, one disc per radio station — one of the first times a game soundtrack was treated like a blockbuster film's. The DJs became stars in their own right, too: Lazlow Jones hosted GTA III's Chatterbox FM and Vice City's V-Rock and remained a Rockstar radio fixture (and writer) for nearly two decades, while later games recruited real celebrities behind the mic — Axl Rose on San Andreas' K-DST, Iggy Pop on GTA IV's Liberty Rock Radio, and Kenny Loggins, Flying Lotus, Gilles Peterson, and Cara Delevingne across GTA V's dial.

What we can expect from GTA 6's radio

The pattern above points one direction: a large, genre-spanning licensed lineup, likely the biggest in series history. And Rockstar's 2020s moves in GTA Online show the studio treating music as a live, evolving feature rather than a fixed launch tracklist: The Music Locker nightclub (2020) brought real-world resident DJs like Moodymann and Keinemusik into the game, The Contract update (2021) was built around Dr. Dre and debuted new, exclusive Dre tracks inside GTA Online, and stations curated by Frank Ocean (Blonded Los Santos 97.8), Danny Brown and Skepta (iFruit Radio), and Rosalía and Arca (MOTOMAMI Los Santos) were added years after GTA V shipped. Applied to GTA 6, that suggests a big licensed dial at launch plus new stations, artist residencies, and exclusive music arriving as post-launch updates.

One station-specific tease exists: in official GTA 6 promotional material on Rockstar's site, protagonist Jason wears a t-shirt with a redesigned V-Rock logo — the hard-rock station from the original Vice City. That's an official artwork Easter egg, not a station announcement; treat V-Rock's return as strongly hinted, not confirmed, until Rockstar says so.

The trailer choices themselves — an 80s deep cut, glossy dance-pop, new wave, Haitian compas, and classic country — already suggest Rockstar is again reaching across genres and decades rather than chasing current chart hits.

The full station list and tracklists will be published here

Based on how past reveals worked, expect the tracklist to surface in two waves: dataminers and players documenting the in-game dial within hours of launch, followed by official Rockstar playlists — the studio has previously published its GTA radio stations as official playlists on Spotify and iTunes, and refreshed them alongside GTA Online music updates. Until either happens, no "full GTA 6 tracklist" circulating online is real.

Which confirmed GTA 6 needle-drop hits hardest?

Bottom line

Six songs are confirmed across two trailers, all sourced directly to Rockstar's own official releases. The in-game radio lineup — station names, DJs, and the bulk of the actual soundtrack players will hear while driving around Vice City — has not been revealed and won't be listed here until Rockstar announces it directly. For the full context of when each trailer dropped and what else it showed, see all GTA 6 trailers, explained and GTA 6: the complete story so far.

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FAQ

Who is on the GTA 6 soundtrack so far?

Five artists across six confirmed songs: Tom Petty (Trailer 1), plus The Pointer Sisters, Wang Chung, Zenglen, and Tammy Wynette (Trailer 2). Only songs heard in official Rockstar trailers count as confirmed — the in-game tracklist has not been announced.

What is the GTA 6 Trailer 1 song?

Tom Petty's 'Love Is a Long Road,' a 1989 track from his solo album Full Moon Fever, soundtracks the entire first trailer, released December 2023.

What songs are in GTA 6 Trailer 2?

The Pointer Sisters' 'Hot Together' carries most of the trailer, with three more songs — Wang Chung's 'Everybody Have Fun Tonight,' Zenglen's 'Child Support,' and Tammy Wynette's 'Talkin' to Myself Again' — heard briefly through car radios during a driving montage.

Has Rockstar confirmed the full in-game radio station lineup?

No. Only the songs used in the two trailers are confirmed. GTA 6's actual in-game radio stations, DJs, and full tracklists have not been announced — past games (GTA V had over 15 stations) suggest a large licensed soundtrack is likely, but nothing is confirmed yet.

Will GTA 6 have licensed radio stations like past GTA games?

Almost certainly, based on Rockstar's history — every mainline GTA since the PS2 era has shipped with multiple licensed in-game radio stations — but no station names, DJs, or full tracklists have been officially confirmed for GTA 6.

Is there an official GTA 6 Spotify playlist?

Not yet. Rockstar has published official GTA radio-station playlists on Spotify and iTunes for past games, so one is plausible around launch, but for GTA 6 only the six trailer songs exist — any 'GTA 6 soundtrack' playlist you find today is fan-made.

Updated 2026-07-15