Various Artists - Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album [2LP]

Rockstar has always treated the car radio as part of the map, and Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album makes that idea physical as a double LP, packaged with a poster.

Made with Atlantic Records to arrive alongside the game in 2026, the album is built from 34 brand-new, original tracks written for the world of Vice City and the wider state of Leonida. That marks a shift for a series whose earlier soundtracks leaned on licensed favourites. This time the artists wrote for the setting, and the lineup cheerfully ignores genre borders, moving between hip-hop, country, Latin pop and club music.

The singles show how wide the net was thrown. Yung Lean's "That's It" pulls in Future and Metro Boomin, while Travis Scott's "RHYNO" carries production from Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. "Sexy Magic" puts CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and Etienne de Crécy in the same room, which reads like a dare on paper. Morgan Wallen turns the wheel toward the highway with "Last Thing You Need."

Rauw Alejandro and Keith Richards are in the lineup too, a pairing only this franchise could pull off with a straight face.

On vinyl, it lands somewhere between soundtrack and souvenir, a snapshot of popular music at the moment one of gaming's biggest names returned to its sun-bleached version of Florida.