Radio and the soundtrack
Twenty songs confirmed across the trailers and the Extended Look. No station names, and no tracklist, which is exactly on schedule.
Radio is not a feature of a Grand Theft Auto game so much as a load-bearing wall. It is how the world talks, how the satire lands, and the reason people can hum a station from a game they last played a decade ago.
Rockstar has announced no station names and no tracklist. What exists is roughly twenty songs identified from official material.
Confirmed from official material
| Song | Artist | Year | Where it was heard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love Is a Long Road | Tom Petty | 1989 | Trailer 1 |
| Hot Together | The Pointer Sisters | 1986 | Trailer 2 |
| Thunder Island | Jay Ferguson | 1977 | Official material |
A further fourteen or so have been identified across the Extended Look, which is sanctioned footage rather than a leak, bringing the confirmed total to around twenty.
Trailer music is not necessarily radio music. Rockstar has used tracks in marketing that never appeared in the game, and the reverse. Treat these as confirmed to exist in Rockstar's licensing rather than confirmed as station rotation.
The scale to expect
Grand Theft Auto V launched with over 240 licensed songs across 17 stations. Grand Theft Auto Online eventually pushed the library past 750. For a game set in a city with the musical history Miami has, and with a story that runs through a recording studio, matching that is the floor rather than the ceiling.
Music inside the story
This is the part that separates Grand Theft Auto 6 from its predecessors. Dre'Quan Priest is a promoter, Boobie Ike owns the studio, and Real Dimez are an act with a name and a place in the business network.
Previous games kept the music industry on the radio and in jokes. This one has put it in the plot.
What is not known
Everything that matters: station names, presenters, genres, tracklists, and whether Rockstar has commissioned original music. Several artists have publicly mentioned working with Rockstar. None of that is a confirmed placement and this page will not list it as one.