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

Correction and update (September 28, 2026). Two things on this page have been overtaken, and it went four months without being revisited. First, it said two songs were confirmed; since September 17 there are 34, on Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album. Second, the station names below came from a Spotify URL trace in April. The stronger evidence now is the radio menu in August's CyberLeek footage — gameplay Rockstar has since acknowledged as genuine — which lists V-Rock, eMotion 98.3 and several new stations, and includes neither Wave 103 nor Boulevard Atlantique. That does not rule either out, since a menu from one build is a snapshot, but it makes this page's April trace the weaker source. The page is kept below as the historical record; the live ledger is the soundtrack page.

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.

The baseline when this was written: two songs, one expected station

Before the rumors, in April: exactly two songs were confirmed for GTA 6, one per official trailer — Tom Petty's "Love Is a Long Road" (Trailer 1) and The Pointer Sisters' "Hot Together" (Trailer 2). V-Rock's return is expected but unconfirmed — community frame-hunters claim V-Rock references in Trailer 2 wardrobe, but we haven't verified those frames and Rockstar has said nothing. See the full soundtrack ledger.

The rest of this article catalogs rumored stations and tracks from leak sources — confidence varies.

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, per the leak above (unconfirmed)
• 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.