Rockstar Games has published no artist list, no station list and no station count for Grand Theft Auto VI. One track is verifiable today: Love Is a Long Road by Tom Petty, which carries the first official trailer. Everything else is either an artist's own statement or a player expectation, and this page keeps the two apart.

That is an awkward position for an article about the soundtrack, and it is the only honest one eleven weeks from release.

Last checked: 8 September 2026. This page will be completed at launch.

The only genuinely verifiable track

The first trailer, published by Rockstar Games on 5 December 2023, is carried from end to end by Love Is a Long Road, a Tom Petty song released in 1989 on Full Moon Fever. Playing the video on the official channel is enough to hear it.

Mind what that fact implies, and above all what it does not. A track used in a trailer is not necessarily in the game. Rockstar Games has picked trailer music before that never appeared in the playable soundtrack. So the trailer song is confirmed as the trailer song, and nothing more.

The second trailer and An Extended Look carry music too, but Rockstar Games has published nothing about the tracks used, and we will not identify them by ear: a rough identification, repeated elsewhere, would turn into a false fact.

What artists have said about themselves

Two names circulate, and they come from the artists rather than from Rockstar Games. That distinction is the point of this section.

Panama, the Australian electronic project, wrote in an Instagram comment that a track called Back To Life, co-written with Poolside, was headed for Grand Theft Auto VI. The post has since been deleted. It was relayed by the specialist press before it disappeared. So it is a first-hand statement by its author, whose original source can no longer be consulted.

Neon Indian, the project of musician Alan Palomo, raised the subject on his own podcast in deliberately evasive terms, implying his relationship with Rockstar Games was not over while confirming nothing. That is a hint, not an announcement.

The two projects share one verifiable trait: their music was already in GTA 5, Neon Indian on Non-Stop-Pop FM and Panama on Radio Mirror Park. That explains why their names keep coming up, and it proves nothing about GTA 6.

What to take from it: neither appears in any Rockstar Games communication. Until that happens these tracks are not confirmed, and a site listing them among confirmed songs is either mistaken or misleading you.

Streamer Mode, and what it says about the soundtrack

Here is a confirmed element, and it teaches more than it seems: Grand Theft Auto VI has a Streamer Mode that filters out copyright-protected music.

That mode only exists if the game holds licensed music, in enough quantity to cause broadcasters a problem. It is therefore the strongest indirect evidence available: there will be commercial tracks, not only an original score.

It also confirms, by implication, that radio remains a central device. A filter like that is not built for three pieces of background music.

Only Raw Records, the label that exists inside the game

Rockstar Games has presented Only Raw Records as a Vice City record label, run by Boobie Ike and Dre'Quan Priest, with the duo Real Dimez among its artists. Those three names are official and appear in the character material.

It is the only musical organisation Rockstar Games has named so far. It is fictional, it belongs to the game world, and it ties music to the plot rather than to the radio dial.

What it does not say: nothing indicates that Only Raw Records has a station of its own, or that Real Dimez tracks are playable on the radio. Those are reasonable inferences, and they remain inferences.

The pages for Boobie Ike, Dre'Quan Priest and Real Dimez set out what Rockstar Games has published about each.

Radio stations: what nobody knows

This is the section you will not find elsewhere in this form, because it contains no list.

Rockstar Games has given no station name, no station count and no musical direction. The lists in circulation, with their station names and genres, are player reconstructions built from the trailers, the habits of previous entries and the game's visual mood.

They are not absurd. Vice City calls for certain genres, the game's look suggests others, and the series has its patterns. But between a plausible hypothesis and a fact lies exactly the difference that separates this wiki from an aggregator.

What is certain is that the station count is one of the figures Rockstar Games never publishes before release. Any page announcing it today has invented it.

What the series did before, and why it proves nothing

The history is verifiable, which is why it belongs here. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City drew on the 1980s, San Andreas on the early 1990s, and GTA 5 on the music of its own release years, with stations such as Non-Stop-Pop FM or Radio Mirror Park. Every entry matched its stations to its fictional period.

That precedent feeds every hypothesis about GTA 6, and it should be read for what it is: a studio habit, not an announcement. Rockstar Games is bound by none of its past decisions, and the one entry returning to Vice City after twenty years is under no obligation to reuse its palette.

Why music matters this much in this series

This is not journalistic nostalgia: radio is a game system. It fills driving time, which is an enormous share of a playthrough, and it dates the world more efficiently than any set dressing.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, in 2002, drew part of its identity from its 1980s stations. Returning to Vice City therefore raises a question Rockstar Games has not yet answered: which musical era suits a contemporary game set in a place tied to one specific decade.

Nobody knows the answer. It arrives on 19 November 2026, or in an official announcement before then.

How this page will be completed

At launch the method is simple, and you can apply it yourself:

1. record the stations actually present in the game, on screen, with their exact names;

2. note the tracks heard and their performers, without trusting lists published elsewhere;

3. check whether Back To Life by Panama and a Neon Indian track are among them, which settles the section above;

4. compare the result with the trailer song, to learn whether Tom Petty is in the game or only in the trailer.

This page will then carry the list, with the date it was recorded, and keep the record of what was assumed beforehand.

Frequently asked questions

Which songs are confirmed in GTA 6?

One is verifiable: Love Is a Long Road by Tom Petty, in the first official trailer. Rockstar Games has published no list of in-game tracks.

How many radio stations will there be?

Rockstar Games has not said. Any number announced today is a player estimate.

Are Neon Indian and Panama confirmed?

Not by Rockstar Games. Panama wrote it in an Instagram comment, since deleted, and Neon Indian hinted at it on his podcast. Those are artist statements, not official announcements.

Will there be a station tied to Only Raw Records?

Nothing indicates it. Only Raw Records is a fictional label run by Boobie Ike and Dre'Quan Priest, and Rockstar Games has never mentioned a radio station in connection with it.

Does Streamer Mode prove there will be licensed music?

It is the one solid clue, yes. A filter that strips protected music has no reason to exist unless the game contains some.

Will you be able to play your own music?

Rockstar Games has announced nothing on this for Grand Theft Auto VI.

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Sources: Rockstar Games · Grand Theft Auto VI · Rockstar Games, official YouTube channel · Vice, statements from Panama and Neon Indian · gameplay presentation at Rockstar Games headquarters, 27 and 28 August 2026.