Vice City Radio — Two Station Names Surface, Plus What We Expect

Rockstar's launch-week pattern is to drop curated Spotify playlists representing the in-game radio stations. This week, two playlist URLs slipped past the embargo for several hours before being pulled — enough time for them to be archived, transcribed, and traced. Here is what surfaced.

Wave 103 returns

The first leaked playlist URL ended in wave-103-vice-city-2026. For anyone who played the original Vice City: yes, that Wave 103. Synth-pop, new wave, mid-period 80s. The 2026 incarnation will be a modernized, 2025–2026 synthwave revival station — confirmed through three artists whose tracks appeared in the leaked playlist:

• The Midnight ("Sunset," "Vampires," "Daytona")
• Gunship ("Tech Noir," "Dark All Day")
• Carpenter Brut ("Turbo Killer")

The thesis is clear: bring the original Vice City station name and energy forward two decades. We are calling this the highest high-confidence leak of the cycle.

Boulevard Atlantique — the new one

The second URL referenced a station called Boulevard Atlantique. The playlist was 47 tracks deep and leaned heavily on:

• Latin freestyle (Lisa Lisa, TKA)
• Modern reggaetón
• French electronic (Justice, Daft Punk)
• A handful of Cuban-American jazz cuts

The implication is a station designed to capture the linguistic and cultural mix of Leonida — a coastline that, per Trailer 2's signage, is heavily Latin-American influenced. Boulevard Atlantique is plausibly the spiritual successor to GTA V's Radio Los Santos: the station Rockstar wants to be the cultural pulse of the city.

What we expect for the full lineup

Rockstar's pattern is 15–18 stations at launch. Going by the station-mix logic from V (Los Santos Rock Radio, Channel X, Radio Mirror Park, etc.), expect:

• One rock revival station — likely with a "modern alternative" bent (think IDLES, Fontaines D.C., late-2020s indie)
• One classic hip-hop station — anchored on 90s/2000s East Coast
• One modern hip-hop station — drill, trap, contemporary
• One country-adjacent station for the Mount Kalaga / Western Interior driving
• One Latin station — likely Boulevard Atlantique (above)
• One synthwave / 80s station — Wave 103 confirmed
• A talk radio station with the usual Rockstar parodies
• An emergency-broadcast / weird station the way Vice City had Pole Position Radio
• One classical / film score station — established Rockstar staple
• Three to five regional or genre-specific deep-dives

How to verify when they ship

Rockstar publishes the official station list on the Newswire 24–48 hours before launch. If you want to check whether a leaked station name made the cut, that's where to look. The full Spotify playlist goes up the morning of release.

We will catalog every confirmed station and a representative track from each in the Database the day they go live. If you find a station name we missed, our tipline is on the About page.