GTA VI music: trailer songs and what is actually confirmed for radio

Oct 9

There are stations now: on October 8 Rockstar revealed the first six (full story here) and released two more album songs, from Cardi B and Fuerza Regida. We've updated this guide with both. Trailer songs still have no station assigned.

Rockstar has explicitly credited only two songs in the official descriptions for the Grand Theft Auto VI trailers: Tom Petty's Love Is a Long Road and The Pointer Sisters' Hot Together. The other tracks in this guide were identified while listening to official footage, but appearing in a video does not guarantee a place on a radio station in the final game.

That distinction sounds minor until a list of “confirmed songs” starts circulating as if it were Vice City's complete radio dial. It is not.

Songs credited by Rockstar

Trailer 1

Love Is a Long Road, Tom Petty

The first trailer's description names the song, its writers, publishers and the licence supplied by Universal Music Enterprises. This is the most direct credit available: Rockstar chose it as the centrepiece of the video released on December 4, 2023.

Trailer 2

Hot Together, The Pointer Sisters

Rockstar provides the same level of detail for the second trailer. Its description credits Sharon Robinson as the writer and RCA Records as the label supplying the recording. The video was released on May 6, 2025.

Both songs are confirmed as official marketing music. Rockstar has not said that either belongs to a playable radio station.

Other tracks identified in the first two trailers

PC Gamer identified three additional songs inside scenes from the trailers:

• Child Support: Zenglen;
• Everybody Have Fun Tonight: Wang Chung;
• Talkin' to Myself Again: Tammy Wynette.

They are audible in official material, but Rockstar does not list them in the main credits of the YouTube descriptions. We treat them as musical identifications, not as an announced part of the final soundtrack.

The 14 tracks identified in An Extended Look

The 26-minute presentation moves through music from scenes, vehicles, parties and the edit itself. PC Gamer identified these tracks:

• Pop Bottles: Birdman and Lil Wayne;
• Skrilla: Kodak Black;
• Pound Town: Sexyy Red and Tay Keith;
• Let Your Love Flow: The Bellamy Brothers;
• Love Bites: Def Leppard;
• People Are People: Depeche Mode;
• But I Think It's a Dream: Captain & Tennille;
• Cars and Girls: Prefab Sprout;
• Off the Grid: !!! featuring Meah Pace;
• Devil Woman: Cliff Richard;
• Se Me Nota (Agárrame): Chimbala and Omega;
• Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now): Phil Collins;
• Mine O' Mine: Aluna and Jayda G;
• Inner Light: Elderbrook and Bob Moses.

PC Gamer's structured list spells the featured artist on Off the Grid as “Mesh Pace.” Apple Music and MusicBrainz identify the recording as Off the Grid (feat. Meah Pace) by !!!. We use the catalogue credit rather than carrying the typo forward.

Rockstar does not list these songs in the official description for An Extended Look. The presentation is official and the tracks are audible, but the identifications rely on PC Gamer's listening work followed by checks of titles and artists.

Are they confirmed for GTA VI's radio stations?

The trailer songs, not yet. None of the tracks in this guide appear in the six stations Rockstar has revealed, and a song can appear in a trailer for several reasons:

• licensed music added to the edit;
• audio coming from a car or venue inside a scene;
• an ambient performance;
• a track licensed only to market the game.

The first confirmed stations

On October 8 Rockstar revealed six stations with audio previews on its official site, and says it will be the biggest radio and podcast lineup in the series. Here they are, with the songs in each preview:

• Cocoteo FM (modern Latin): Bad Bunny ("EoO"), Axel Rulay with Farruko and El Alfa, and Romeo Santos with El Chaval de la Bachata.
• Back Country Radio (country): David Allan Coe, Loretta Lynn, and Hank Williams Jr. with Waylon Jennings.
• AfroBank FM (African music and amapiano): Asake, Pat Thomas with Ebo Taylor, and DJ Lag and Robot Boii with Kamo Mphela.
• The Chamber 106.6 (classic metal): Black Sabbath, Pantera and Slayer ("Raining Blood").
• Flash FM (pop, the Vice City station that's back): Charli xcx, MGMT ("Electric Feel") and Zara Larsson with PinkPantheress.
• Dirty South Classics (Southern rap): David Banner, JT Money and DJ Khaled with Trick Daddy, Rick Ross and Pitbull.

Hosts include Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Morgan Wallen, Burna Boy, Slayer's Kerry King and Tom Araya, Robyn and Trick Daddy. For the first time you'll also be able to listen on foot with headphones, and there will be on-demand podcasts. Full details in our stations story.

GTA VI: The Album

Separately from the radio, Rockstar and Atlantic will release Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album on November 19, with 34 original songs. Eight are already out:

• "That's It", by Yung Lean with Future and Metro Boomin;
• "RHYNO", by Travis Scott;
• "Sexy Magic", by CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and Étienne de Crécy;
• "Last Thing You Need", by Morgan Wallen;
• "Macacoa 2000", by Rauw Alejandro;
• "Bright Lights, Big City", by Keith Richards;
• "Don't Chart", by Cardi B (new, October 8);
• "Suzuki", by Fuerza Regida (new, October 8).

The first six came out on September 17 (our story). Cardi B and Fuerza Regida had been rumored since Spotify briefly showed their names on October 4; they're now confirmed. Rockstar hasn't said whether album tracks will also play on an in-game station.

What Rockstar still hasn't published

• the full station list (only six so far);
• the total number of radio songs;
• podcast names;
• regional licensing differences;
• plans for a future online mode.

What the selection tells us

The mix fits Rockstar's modern Vice City. It crosses decades and moves through rock, pop, country, Haitian kompa, Latin music, hip hop and electronic music. This is not a city trapped in the 1980s, although tracks from that decade still have a place.

The choices also carry the trailers. Tom Petty introduces Jason and Lucia; The Pointer Sisters turn the second trailer into a relationship story; Phil Collins, Depeche Mode and Def Leppard connect with Vice City's musical memory without reducing the entire game to nostalgia.

How to read this guide

We use three plain labels:

• Credited by Rockstar: named in the official video description.
• Identified in official footage: audible in the video with a reliable title and artist identification.
• Confirmed for radio: only when Rockstar names the station or shows an unambiguous interface.

Since October 8 all three categories have music: the songs in the six station previews are the first confirmed for radio.

The links in this list point to official artist or label channels, or YouTube Topic pages where available. They let you hear each recording, but they do not turn a song heard in a trailer into a track confirmed for GTA VI's radio.

This guide will be updated when Rockstar publishes more credits, stations or the full official list. For now, the original sources are Trailer 1, Trailer 2 and An Extended Look.