Rockstar Games revealed the first six GTA 6 radio stations on October 8, 2026, naming their on-air hosts, describing their genres and putting playable audio previews on the official Grand Theft Auto VI website. It is the single largest drop of concrete soundtrack information since the game was announced, and it arrived with 42 days left before the November 19 launch.
Crucially, Rockstar framed these six as a sample rather than the full dial. The official wording describes a lineup "spanning stations dedicated to everything from Classic Rock to Talk Radio," neither of which is among the six revealed. More stations are still unannounced.
The six stations
| Station | Genre | On-air hosts | Performers behind them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cocoteo FM | Modern Latin: bachata, merengue, dembow, reggaeton | El Martillo and La Gata | Bad Bunny and RaiNao |
| Back Country Radio | Country, covering Grassrivers and Port Gellhorn | MW and Delta Dawne | Morgan Wallen and Lana Del Rey |
| AfroBank FM | African music: 20th-century classics, amapiano, 3-step | Burna and Palmsy | Burna Boy and DJ Palms Trax |
| The Chamber 106.6 | Metal, classics from the 1980s onward | DJ Kerry and DJ Tom | Kerry King and Tom Araya of Slayer |
| Flash FM | Pop | Robyn and Alex | Robyn and Alex Consani |
| Dirty South Classics | Regional Southern rap and hip-hop | Trick and Trina | Trick Daddy and Trina |
Every station is fronted by a pair rather than a single voice, which is a structural change from how GTA has handled radio before. Previous games leaned on solo celebrity DJs: Kenny Loggins hosted Los Santos Rock Radio in GTA 5, Iggy Pop hosted Liberty Rock Radio in GTA 4. Six two-host stations suggests Rockstar has written these as banter shows with a rapport to perform, not drop-in cameos between tracks.
Back Country Radio has a third voice
Back Country Radio is the only station revealed with a named supporting character. Mud Dog Mike is described by Rockstar as "roving reporter, swamp meteorologist, and Delta's not-so-secret lover," and he is voiced by Jeremy Dufrene, Lana Del Rey's husband. The station is also the only one tied to specific geography in Rockstar's own copy, covering the Grassrivers and Port Gellhorn regions rather than Vice City.
Flash FM is a returning name
Flash FM is the one station on this list with series history. It was a pop station in the original 2002 Vice City, where it was hosted by Toni and leaned on early-1980s chart material. Its return is the clearest confirmation yet that Rockstar is treating the modern Leonida of GTA 6 as the same place as the 1986 Vice City of the earlier game, with institutions that persisted across four decades of in-fiction time rather than a clean reboot. Robyn also has history here: she appeared on GTA 5's pop station as an artist, and now hosts.
What the audio previews contain
Rockstar put short station previews on its official music page, selectable per station. Outlets who listened through them reported snippets from Bad Bunny, David Allan Coe, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Charli xcx, MGMT and DJ Khaled, among others. Those are preview snippets rather than a published tracklist, so treat them as partial evidence of what each station plays and not as a confirmed song list. Rockstar has not published a full GTA 6 tracklist.
Three new screenshots went up alongside the reveal, downloadable from the official site.
Podcasts arrive in the series for the first time
The quieter announcement in the same update may be the more significant one. Rockstar said that "for the first time ever, Grand Theft Auto VI introduces a series of on-demand podcasts." Radio in GTA has always been a broadcast: you tune in partway through whatever is playing and you cannot rewind it. On-demand changes the relationship, because a podcast you select and start from the beginning is content Rockstar can expect you to actually hear in full.
Rockstar also confirmed that music and podcasts can be played on foot as well as in vehicles, through headphones or earbuds connected to the in-game phone. That matters for anyone who has spent time in Leonida's confirmed outdoor regions, because it extends the soundtrack past the driver's seat for the first time in the series. We have broken the podcast system down separately in our on-demand podcasts explainer.
How this fits what was already known
Before October 8, the site's radio stations roundup and soundtrack overview worked from trailer audio and inference. A leaked radio lineup had circulated earlier and should now be checked against this official list rather than treated as settled. Likewise, our talk radio piece was speculative on the format's return; Rockstar naming Talk Radio in its own copy now puts it on firmer ground, though no talk station has been named.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many radio stations will GTA 6 have in total?
Rockstar has not said. Six have been named, and the official copy references Classic Rock and Talk Radio stations that are not among them, so the final count is higher than six. GTA 5 launched with 16 stations plus a self radio option.
Is there a full GTA 6 tracklist?
No. Rockstar has published station previews, not a tracklist. Artists heard in the previews are evidence of inclusion for those specific snippets only.
Does GTA 6 have self radio or custom music?
Unannounced. GTA 5 on PC supported a user-populated self radio station, but GTA 6 has no PC version announced and Rockstar has said nothing about custom music.
Can I listen to the radio while walking around?
Yes. Rockstar confirmed music and podcasts play on foot through headphones or earbuds connected to the in-game phone, as well as in vehicles.
The Bottom Line
This is the most substantial official GTA 6 information drop in weeks, and unusually it is almost entirely concrete: six named stations, twelve named hosts, three named genres per station in some cases, playable previews and a brand-new content format in on-demand podcasts. The honest caveat is that the dial is not complete and the tracklist does not exist publicly. What the reveal does establish is scale and seriousness of intent. Rockstar has booked Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Morgan Wallen, Burna Boy and both Kerry King and Tom Araya of Slayer to read links on fictional radio, and that is not the budget of a studio treating the soundtrack as background noise.