Grand Theft Auto 6 is getting a vinyl, CD and streaming soundtrack release with 34 original tracks. Musicians attached to the project, including Travis Scott and Keith Richards, spent the week teasing the announcement before Rockstar confirmed it.
The GTA 6 soundtrack release is notable mainly for what it is not: a physical copy of the game. GTA 6 remains a digital-only release in terms of actual game data, so boxed copies sold at retail contain nothing but a code to redeem it online. The soundtrack is Rockstar’s first physical media tied to the game, and it arrives on formats the game itself will never use.
What the soundtrack release actually contains
The album spans 34 original tracks and will be sold as vinyl and CD alongside standard streaming availability. Rockstar has not published a tracklist, credited every contributing artist, or set a release date in the material teased so far, so specifics beyond the format and track count are not yet confirmed. The involvement of figures like Travis Scott and Keith Richards points to the same mix of genres GTA soundtracks have used before, spanning original score and licensed-adjacent original recordings rather than a straight radio-station tie-in.
Buying the record or CD gets you the music, not the game. Anyone picking up a boxed copy of GTA 6 at retail should expect the same digital-code arrangement already common across the industry, comparable to the day-one download requirement on Final Fantasy 7 Revelation’s disc release.
Why this lands differently for a game still not out
Rockstar shipping a physical soundtrack before the game itself is playable is an unusual sequencing choice, and it lands against a backdrop of intense scrutiny over anything GTA 6-related leaving the studio. Take-Two has spent the past few weeks in court trying to keep a new leaker subpoena sealed, as teqpost reported on 1 September. A sanctioned, artist-fronted announcement like this one is the opposite of that fight: it is Rockstar controlling the reveal itself rather than chasing down someone else’s leak.
It also sits alongside a run of unofficial GTA content filling the gap before release. teqpost covered a PS5 emulator running GTA V at 60 FPS before crashing on 7 September, and RPCS3 gained the ability to play PS3 games straight from disc the following day. None of that is Rockstar’s doing, but it shows how much activity is orbiting the franchise while the actual game stays under wraps.
What to watch next
Rockstar has not announced a release date for the soundtrack, a full tracklist or pricing for the vinyl and CD editions. Those details, along with any further artist reveals beyond Travis Scott and Keith Richards, are the next things likely to surface before the album actually ships.
