By On September 15 a dozen artists posted Leonida-styled art in a single day, and I wrote that somebody had clearly built that wave a schedule. Two days later Rockstar showed the schedule: Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, 34 tracks, out November 19. The pre-save is live on Spotify and the other big services — and six singles are not waiting for November. They’re out now.
Here’s the opening six: Yung Lean — That’s It (feat. Future & Metro Boomin), Travis Scott — RHYNO (produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo), CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso with PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and Etienne de Crécy — Sexy Magic, Morgan Wallen — Last Thing You Need, Rauw Alejandro — Macacoa 2000, and Keith Richards — Bright Lights, Big City.
Read that list again slowly, because I had to. Travis Scott produced by one half of Daft Punk — the robots haven’t touched much since 2021, and the first place that changes is a GTA album. A six-name posse cut where a London club producer meets two Argentinians who showed up to the Latin Grammys in their underwear. And Keith Richards, 82 years old, recording a new song for a video game. Every hunch from the teaser wave landed: they weren’t hinting at radio cameos, they were holding finished singles.
What I like most is what this does to the waiting. The game is two months out, and Rockstar just handed everyone a piece of Vice City you can actually play today, on repeat, in your car. The full confirmed music list — trailers, showcase and now the album — lives on our soundtrack page, and my bet on where these six tracks sit in-game is written in the radio stations breakdown. November suddenly sounds a lot closer.
Update, October 4: Two more names have appeared in the album’s tracklist on Spotify. Track 10 is by Fuerza Regida, the Mexican-American band that plays corridos and regional Mexican music, and track 19 is by Cardi B, the American rapper. The song titles are still hidden behind “Track 10” and “Track 19”. A Bronx rapper and a corridos band on one record set in a Florida-style city sounds about right to me: that’s who you’d hear from car windows in Miami.
