How does the radio work in GTA 6, and what is on it?

The radio is half of what a Grand Theft Auto sounds like. For GTA 6 Rockstar has described six stations and named Justice as composers of the score, and there is still no radio wheel in any frame we have. What there is, is the music Rockstar has already put under its own footage, and this page keeps that apart from everything else.

What the material shows

None of the frames we have taken shows a radio being changed: no station wheel, no station name on screen, no tuning prompt. What the four official videos carry is music, and the soundtrack answer holds the list. Trailer 1 runs under one song, Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road”. Trailer 2 layers several, all six identified by ear in reporting: the Pointer Sisters’ “Hot Together” as its anchor, Jay Ferguson’s “Thunder Island” at the open, Zenglen’s “Child Support”, a Haitian konpa track, while Jason drives, Wang Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” on a car radio, Tammy Wynette’s “Talkin’ to Myself Again” and a version of “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”. The Extended Look added fourteen more under its gameplay, for a running total of 21 licensed songs on record. The Launch Trailer is scored with “Flower in a Hurricane”, a new single from Justice, the composers of the game’s original score.

Two things bear on the radio. One song is reported as playing on a car radio inside the world, which, if the identification holds, is a car radio doing what it always has. And a label’s name, ONLY RAW, stands on a screen behind a mixing desk in one of Dre’Quan Priest’s press images, a piece of the music business inside the world; GTA Online already let players into a recording studio, and this is the same trade seen from the label’s side.

What Rockstar has said about the radio

On 8 October 2026 Rockstar’s Newswire described six of the stations: Cocoteo FM, Back Country Radio, AfroBank FM, The Chamber 106.6, Flash FM and Dirty South Classics; the soundtrack answer has their hosts and styles. It also says two things about how you listen. GTA 6 adds “a series of on-demand podcasts”, a first for the series, and both radio and podcasts can be heard “in vehicles and on foot through newly introduced headphones and earbuds connected to their smartphones”.

Everything else, full tracklists, which songs sit on which station, how the stations are switched, is a leak, a rumour or an artist’s own claim, and Rockstar has backed none of it. The soundtrack answer has the album of 34 original tracks, the six stations and the score by Justice, each with Rockstar’s own source.

What nobody knows

• The full station lineup; Rockstar has described six.
• Whether any of the 21 trailer songs is on a station.
• How a station is changed, and whether the wheel returns.
• Whether there is a Self Radio or any way to bring your own music.

How Grand Theft Auto V did it

This is the reference, not a prediction. The GTA Wiki counts GTA V’s radio at “22 in-game radio stations, with 21 active stations in each county, one GTA Online radio station was ported to GTA V, and one user custom station”. Changing them worked like the weapons: “switching between radio stations is now done by bringing up a radio station wheel to jump to any station, or turn off the radio”, with a swipe on the PS4 touch pad as an alternative. The custom station was PC only, Self Radio, playing “songs from audio files the player places in ‘C:\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA V\User Music'”.

What this page becomes on launch day

From 19 November 2026 this guide is rewritten from the release build: the station lineup, how a station is changed, and whether you can bring your own music, each with the date it was tested. Until then the short answer at the top stands.