GTA 6 Radio: Six Stations, Celebrity Hosts and Podcasts

Rockstar named the first six radio stations in GTA 6 on October 8, 2026, six weeks before launch. Each comes with its hosts, three sample songs and a two-minute preview on a new Music section of the official site. The same announcement confirms two things the series has never had: on-demand podcasts, and headphones that let Jason and Lucia keep listening after they leave the car.

It is the first official word on in-game radio. Until now our radio and soundtrack page could only say the line-up was unannounced.

The six stations

Everything in this table is from Rockstar’s announcement, including the casting — it lists each host followed by who voices them.

Rockstar listed three songs per station. Among them: Bad Bunny’s “EoO” and Romeo Santos’ “Canalla” on Cocoteo FM; Loretta Lynn and a Hank Williams, Jr. and Waylon Jennings duet on Back Country; Asake’s “Joha” on AfroBank; Black Sabbath’s “I”, Pantera’s “I’m Broken” and Slayer’s “Raining Blood” on The Chamber; Charli xcx’s “Good Ones” and MGMT’s “Electric Feel” on Flash FM; and David Banner’s “Like A Pimp” on Dirty South Classics, alongside a DJ Khaled track featuring Trick Daddy, Rick Ross and Pitbull.

That is 18 songs across six stations — a sample, not a tracklist.

Podcasts and earbuds

The line that changes how the game plays is this one, quoted from the announcement:

“For the first time ever, Grand Theft Auto VI introduces a series of on-demand podcasts for the game’s protagonists Jason and Lucia to experience beyond Leonida’s terrestrial radio, with both radio and podcasts available to listen to in vehicles and on-foot through newly introduced headphones and earbuds connected to their smartphones.”

Two separate facts sit in that sentence. Podcasts are on demand, so unlike a talk station you choose what plays. And audio is no longer tied to a vehicle: in every previous mainline game the radio stopped when you stepped out of the car. Rockstar has not named a single podcast or host yet, and has not said how earbuds are obtained or whether wearing them affects what Jason and Lucia can hear around them.

What it settles, and what it does not

Rockstar describes the full dial as “the biggest and widest-ranging selection of in-game radio yet”, spanning “Classic Rock, Modern Hip-Hop, Pop, Metal, Dance, Latin, 80’s, Electronic, Blues, Ballads, Talk Radio, and more”. Set against the six named stations, that list implies at least classic rock, modern hip-hop, dance, 80s, electronic, blues, ballads and talk stations still to come. Rockstar gave no total, and we are not guessing one.

Still unannounced:

• The complete station list and the full licensed soundtrack
• Podcast titles and hosts
• The game’s “dynamic score”, which Rockstar says it will detail later
• The remaining 28 tracks of The Album, and whether album tracks play on these stations

The casting also answers a long-running question. Thirteen named musicians and personalities are in the game as radio voices, two of them credited as themselves, which is why our celebrity cameos page moves to confirmed today. None of them has been announced as an on-screen character.

Series context

Flash FM is a returning name: it was the pop station in the original Vice City, and Rockstar now calls it “the Vice City institution”. Musicians hosting stations is also an old habit — Axl Rose fronted a classic rock station in San Andreas and Iggy Pop did the same in GTA IV — but six stations’ worth of them announced before launch is new.

The geography in the station blurbs is consistent with what Rockstar has shown. Back Country broadcasts to the Grassrivers and Port Gellhorn, and its reporter Mud Dog Mike checks in from an airboat. Dirty South Classics is fronted by two Miami rap veterans in a game whose Vice City is modelled on Miami.

The station previews are on Rockstar’s site now. For everything else Rockstar has stated on the record, see everything confirmed so far.