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Travis Scott and Keith Richards open the Grand Theft Auto 6 soundtrack

Six songs from a 34-track album landed on 17 September, with the full record and the game both due on 19 November.

Travis Scott Fred Again.. Keith Richards PinkPantheress Yung Lean Ca7riel Paco Amoroso Rauw Alejandro Future Metro Boomin Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Morgan Wallen

Travis Scott raps into a handheld microphone with one arm flung upward, in a black beanie and distressed jacket over a climbing harness, gold light cutting across behind him.
Travis Scott, who opens the Grand Theft Auto 6 album, performing at TD Garden in Boston in July 2017. Photo: Kenny Sun from Boston, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Grand Theft Auto 6 soundtrack has stopped being a rumour, and Travis Scott is on the front of it. Rockstar Games and Atlantic Records put out six songs on Thursday 17 September and confirmed that the full album holds 34 original tracks, arriving on 19 November, the same day as the game.

His track is the marquee cut. RHYNO is produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk, which is the first production credit under that name in some time. Alongside it came That's It by Yung Lean, featuring Future over a Metro Boomin instrumental, and Sexy Magic, a house track pairing the Argentine duo CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso with PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and the French producer Etienne de Crecy.

The other three go in three different directions. Morgan Wallen contributed Last Thing You Need; Rauw Alejandro turned in Macacoa 2000, which Remezcla describes as a throwback to reggaeton's golden age; and Keith Richards covered Jimmy Reed's 1961 blues Bright Lights, Big City. Rolling Stone notes that no recording date or location came with the Richards track, so whether it dates from the Foreign Tongues or Hackney Diamonds sessions is unknown.

Rockstar says the 34 songs were written to capture what it calls the electric energy of the game's Vice City and Leonida settings, and that the album arrives alongside a new generation of the in-game radio stations the series is known for. Atlantic, which sits inside Warner Music Group, assembled the roster.

The physical editions are unusually elaborate. Atlantic is selling a limited liquid-filled vinyl, a splatter pressing and a CD jewel case, with further retail-exclusive variants through Blood Records, Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, Urban Outfitters and independent stores, each with its own artwork and poster. Indie Hoy reports the limited edition listed at $124.98, against $49.98 for standard vinyl and $19.98 for the CD.

The commercial stakes for the artists involved are not theoretical. NME reports that Captain & Tennille's But I Think It's A Dream saw global streams rise by 130,730% in the three days after the game's Extended Look trailer used it. A place on the album is worth considerably more than a sync fee.

The full tracklist has not been published. Six of 34 songs are out, the rest are being held to the release, and the album is on the release calendar for 19 November. Our other hip-hop coverage of that roster includes Travis Scott signalling Mike Dean is back for his next album, and video-game soundtracks keep drawing established acts, as with a Metallica song on Gears of War: E-Day.

The facts

  • Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album holds 34 original tracks.
  • Rockstar Games and Atlantic Records release it on 19 November 2026.
  • The album arrives the same day as the game.
  • Six songs were released on 17 September 2026.
  • Travis Scott's RHYNO is produced by Daft Punk's Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
  • Yung Lean's That's It features Future and Metro Boomin.
  • Keith Richards covers Jimmy Reed's 1961 song Bright Lights, Big City.
  • Liquid-filled, splatter and retail-exclusive vinyl editions are on sale.

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