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GTA 6 Soundtrack — V-Rock Is Back, Plus Four Songs Confirmed

V-Rock is back. Four songs are confirmed from trailer audio. Three more are credibly rumored. Here's the full ledger of what's on the GTA 6 soundtrack so far — confirmed vs. rumored.

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V-Rock is back. Four songs are confirmed from trailer audio — Shazam identification and Rockstar's own releases cross-check cleanly on all four. Two more are credibly rumored via insider claims and a podcast confirmation that stops short of naming a specific track. This is the full ledger as of today. Confirmed is confirmed. Rumored is rumored. Nothing else is in either column.

V-Rock Confirmation

Jason wears a V-Rock t-shirt in two distinct shots in Trailer 2 b-roll — different outfits, different scenes, same logo. That is not costuming noise. V-Rock was Vice City's (2002) hair-metal station, and its explicit resurrection as on-screen wardrobe is the strongest single-asset signal that the GTA 6 radio dial leans hard into the Vice City callback. No other station has received equivalent on-screen treatment in any official material released to date. V-Rock is confirmed returning. What it plays beyond the confirmed tracks below is not yet known.

Confirmed Songs

Four tracks identified from trailer audio, cross-referenced against Shazam logs and community identification threads. No fifth entry belongs in this column yet.

  • Tom Petty — "Love Is a Long Road" — Trailer 1 lead track; the clearest identification in the set.
  • Wang Chung — "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" — Trailer 2 b-roll; Shazam-confirmed by multiple independent logs.
  • Tammy Wynette — "Talkin' to Myself Again" — Trailer 2; consistent identification across community threads.
  • The Arrows — "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" — The 1975 original, not the Joan Jett cover. Shazam fingerprint distinguishes the two; the original is what appears in the trailer audio.

Credibly Rumored

Two tracks carry enough sourcing to list, not enough to confirm.

  • Panama × Poolside — "Back to Life" — Multiple insider claims across separate sources. No official confirmation, no trailer placement. The sourcing pattern is consistent but uncorroborated.
  • Neon Indian collaboration — The artist confirmed involvement in a podcast appearance. The specific track title was not disclosed. A confirmed artist with an unconfirmed track is not the same as a confirmed track; it is listed here, not above.

Historical Context

GTA V launched with 17 radio stations and approximately 240 licensed tracks. GTA Online has added to that count incrementally over the decade since. Extrapolating from GTA V's scope and the Vice City setting's catalog depth — 80s and early-90s pop, rock, hip-hop, and electronic all have natural homes on a Vice City dial — a reasonable estimate is 16–20 stations and 200-plus tracks at GTA 6 launch. That is an estimate based on precedent, not a confirmed station count or track total.

What to Watch

Rockstar's pattern is to publish the full radio station list approximately one week before launch. With a confirmed November 19 launch date, the full station and playlist reveal should land around the week of November 9. That is when the confirmed column will expand significantly. Until then, the ledger above is what the evidence supports.

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