GTA 6 Soundtrack Confirmed: Every Song Heard in the Extended Look (And What It Tells Us)

Fourteen songs were identified from the Extended Look itself — a genre spread wide enough to cover the entire history of Vice City's musical identity in one 27-minute reveal.

Confirmed Songs From the Extended Look (27 August 2026)

1. "Pop Bottles" — Birdman feat. Lil Wayne
2. "Pound Town" — Sexyy Red & Tay Keith
3. "Skrilla" — Kodak Black
4. "Let Your Love Flow" — The Bellamy Brothers
5. "Love Bites" — Def Leppard
6. "People Are People" — Depeche Mode
7. "But I Think It's a Dream" — Captain & Tennille
8. "Cars and Girls" — Prefab Sprout
9. "Off the Grid" — !!! feat. Meah Pace
10. "Devil Woman" — Cliff Richard
11. "Se Me Nota (Agárrame)" — Chimbala and Omega
12. "Against All Odds" — Phil Collins (heard quietly during a lift ride)
13. "Mine 'O Mine" — Aluna and Jayda G
14. "Inner Light" — Elderbrook with Bob Moses

Previously Confirmed, From Earlier Trailers

• "Hot Together" — The Pointer Sisters (Trailer 2)
• "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" — Wang Chung (Trailer 1)
• "Love Is a Long Road" — Tom Petty (Trailer 1)
• "Child Support" — Zenglen (Trailer 1)

The '80s Thread Running Through All of It

Wang Chung, the Pointer Sisters, Phil Collins, Depeche Mode, Def Leppard — despite being set in the present day, GTA 6's music keeps circling back to the decade Vice City was built on. Phil Collins specifically has real history with this series: he appeared as himself in GTA Vice City, showed up again in Vice City Stories, and his return here — even in a quiet, background lift moment rather than a marquee needle-drop — reads as a deliberate callback, not a coincidence.

What the Genre Range Signals About Radio Stations

Southern hip-hop shows up during car-chase energy. Latin music (Chimbala and Omega) plays during scenes set in Vice City proper. Electronic tracks (Elderbrook, Aluna) fit nightclub settings. Classic rock and country-adjacent tracks (Bellamy Brothers, Cliff Richard) lean rural. That's not incidental — it's a strong signal that GTA 6's radio stations are built around specific environments and moods the way past GTA soundtracks have always worked, just with a wider genre net than any single previous game.

Leaked footage from 18 August (ahead of the official reveal) reportedly identified 15 radio stations in total, including two named directly: V-Rock and WorldWide FM. Rockstar hasn't officially confirmed the full station list — that detail comes from footage analysis, not an official tracklist, and should be treated as reported rather than confirmed until Rockstar publishes one.

Leak-Heard Tracks vs. Officially Confirmed — the Real Difference

Before the official reveal, fans and outlets including Kotaku identified additional songs in the 18 August Cyberleek gameplay leak: "Impact" (SG Lewis, Robyn & Channel Tres), "Unforgettable" (French Montana ft. Swae Lee), and "Players" (Coi Leray), the latter two heard back-to-back in the same clip. These are genuinely different from the 14 tracks above — they were identified from leaked, unofficial footage, not from Rockstar's own Extended Look. This site doesn't repost the leak itself (see our earlier coverage explaining why), but naming songs that fans and outlets identified from footage that's already widely reported on is a different matter from reposting the footage — still, treat these as reported, not Rockstar-confirmed, until they appear in official material.

Rumoured, Not Confirmed at All

A handful of names are doing the rounds with very weak signal and no actual footage to back them up: an artist going by Panama hinted that a track made with Poolside would be in the game, in a since-deleted comment. Neon Indian's Alan Palomo has hinted at an ongoing relationship with Rockstar on his own podcast — notable mainly because his song "Polish Girl" was in GTA V. Drake has been rumoured for a dedicated station, in the same way Frank Ocean got blonded Los Santos in GTA V — pure speculation. Kendrick Lamar has been floated with even less behind it. None of this is confirmed by anything beyond fan speculation and secondhand hints — labelled here explicitly as rumour, not fact.

The Score, Not Just the Radio

Alongside licensed music, an original score is present in the Extended Look — synth-heavy specifically during moments of tension, such as a drug deal going wrong or a police chase kicking off. That's a direct callback to Vice City's noir-synth identity from the original 2002 game, deployed as an actual gameplay-tension tool rather than pure nostalgia.

Licensed Music Has Always Done Narrative Work in GTA

Rockstar has never treated its soundtracks as pure background noise — GTA V's Los Santos Rock Radio and stations like Non-Stop-Pop FM were built to reinforce the tone of the city they played in, in the same way Vice City's original 2002 soundtrack leaned entirely into period-accurate '80s tracks to sell the setting before a single mission started. GTA 6 doing the opposite — mixing 2020s hip-hop with 1980s new wave and soft rock in the same reveal, despite being set in the present day — signals a Vice City that's meant to feel as though it's carrying its own history forward rather than being a clean modern reboot. The Phil Collins needle-drop specifically works because longtime players already have a relationship with that music in this exact setting; it's not a random licensing pick.

Why the Genre Range Itself Is the Story

No past GTA soundtrack has attempted to cover Southern hip-hop, arena rock, new wave, yacht pop, Latin dance, and ambient electronic in the same 27-minute preview and had it read as cohesive rather than scattershot. That range is deliberate: it signals a radio line-up built to shift completely depending on where in Leonida you are and what you're doing, rather than a handful of stations each locked to one genre for the whole game the way early PS2-era GTA radio worked. It's closer in spirit to how GTA V balanced a dozen-plus stations across wildly different tastes, just with an even wider net cast earlier in the marketing cycle.

Why Labelling Sources Matters Here Specifically

Music coverage is one of the easiest places for confirmed and rumoured information to blur together, because identifying songs from gameplay footage is genuinely hard to verify without direct access to the source video — a few bars of a track in a noisy chase scene is a very different confidence level from Rockstar's own credits listing a song outright. That's exactly why this piece separates the 14 tracks confirmed from the actual Extended Look, the 4 from earlier official trailers, the leak-heard tracks identified from unofficial footage, and the handful of purely rumoured names into distinct tiers rather than one flat list. A soundtrack rumour that turns out to be wrong costs nothing but a correction; treating it as confirmed and being wrong costs the site's credibility on every other confirmed-vs-speculation call it makes.

What to Expect From the Full Station Line-up

If the 15-station figure from leaked footage holds, that would put GTA 6 in line with — possibly beyond — GTA V's already-large station count, which itself was considered massive for the genre at the time. Historically, Rockstar has used a handful of stations to cover a single dominant genre each (a hip-hop station, a classic rock station, a talk-radio station) rather than mixing everything into fewer, broader stations. Nothing here confirms that structure carries over exactly, but the genre range across just 14 confirmed songs — hip-hop, arena rock, new wave, soft pop, Latin dance, ambient electronic — is wide enough to plausibly support that many distinct stations without much overlap.

What's Still Unknown

The full radio station line-up, DJ hosts (if any), total track count across all stations, and whether any of the rumoured names pan out are all unconfirmed. The figure of 15 stations from leaked footage is itself unofficial — Rockstar could add, cut, or rename stations before launch.

Sources: SVG, Rolling Stone Canada, NME, GTA Boom.

One more distinction worth being explicit about: none of the tracks above are reproduced here beyond their title and artist. Reference, not reproduction — the same standard this site holds for any licensed or leaked material.

It's also worth remembering how early this list still is. A 27-minute reveal surfaced 14 confirmed tracks; a full game's worth of radio stations, however many there end up being, will need dramatically more than that to fill hours of drive time without repeating constantly.

Full context in our GTA 6 Complete Guide and the Extended Look roundup.