Justice's Grand Theft Auto VI score album lands on 11 December — here is what is actually confirmed

A December date for the music behind Leonida

CONFIRMED: Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score, composed by French electronic duo Justice, will be released on 11 December 2026. The announcement came on 29 October and was reported the same day by Game Informer and SPIN and on 30 October by Gadgets 360, each pointing to Rockstar's own announcement. The album will be available on all major streaming services and in physical formats, released through Because Music, Ed Banger and Rockstar Games. [1]

Grand Theft Auto VI itself launches on 19 November 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, so the score album follows the game by three weeks rather than arriving with it: players will hear Justice's music in Leonida from launch day but the standalone album that collects it does not land until December. [1]

Justice are Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, a Grammy-winning French duo. Rockstar confirmed them as the game's score composers earlier in October, alongside the launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI. Reports describe the pair as hand-selected for the job, working in close collaboration with Rockstar's team. [1]

Thirty tracks and roughly three hours of score

CONFIRMED: The score album features 30 tracks drawn from Justice's full suite of music composed for Grand Theft Auto VI, totalling roughly three hours. A number of digital bonus tracks will be included across all formats, though Rockstar has not said how many and that count should not be guessed at. The physical release comes as a double CD and a triple vinyl set, with a limited crystal-clear vinyl pressing alongside standard black vinyl. [1]

REPORTED: The score was built to respond to gameplay. SPIN reports that Justice created the music in close collaboration with Rockstar, with the material designed to shift as players move through Leonida and follow protagonists Jason and Lucia. That adaptive ambition fits what the duo themselves have said about the scale of the job. Xavier de Rosnay said the scope of the game was so large, geographically and thematically, that it was clear from the beginning the music would also have to be very broad in terms of emotions, genres and textures and that the pair were given the freedom to explore as many things as they needed to, musically speaking, as long as it made sense with the game. [1]

Rockstar has not published a full tracklist. Beyond the two tracks discussed below, the running order and remaining titles are UNCONFIRMED and any online list claiming to be complete should be treated as such unless Rockstar publishes it. [1]

Two albums, not one — do not mix them up

CONFIRMED: The score album is a separate release from Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, the game's official soundtrack album. The Album features 34 brand-new original songs from an assortment of artists across genres and launches on 19 November 2026, the same day as the game. Rockstar announced The Album last month and several of its tracks have already been released ahead of launch. [1]

The distinction is easy to blur because the two releases share artists and one song. "Flower in a Hurricane" appears in both collections: it is a Justice track from the score and it is also one of the 34 songs on The Album. KeenGamer's reporting on Rockstar's music page notes the overlap directly and it is the reason listeners should check the full title before following any pre-save or pre-order link. Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score by Justice is the December release; Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album is the November release. [1]

For players, the practical difference is simple. The Album is a compilation of original songs by many artists, the kind of record that stands on its own away from the game. The score album is the composed music that underpins play itself — the instrumental material that accompanies missions, exploration and story beats across Leonida. [1]

"Pusher": the second taste of the score

REPORTED: On 29 October, alongside the album announcement, Rockstar released a new original song from the score called "Pusher", by Justice featuring French electronic producer Gesaffelstein. The track is available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. NME describes it as a seven-minute electronic track and SPIN notes it as the duo's first-ever collaboration with Gesaffelstein. [1]

"Pusher" matters because it is only the second piece of the score the public has heard and it sounds deliberately different from the trailer song. Where "Flower in a Hurricane" is a vocal collaboration built for a trailer moment, "Pusher" is a longer, driving electronic piece that hints at the score's range when it is not carrying a story beat. That range is consistent with de Rosnay's description of music built to cover a wide spread of emotions, genres and textures. [1]

Analysis: Two previews cannot define a three-hour score. What they establish is narrower but still useful — that Justice are writing both song-length collaborations and extended electronic pieces and that Rockstar is releasing score material in stages rather than holding everything until December. [1]

"Flower in a Hurricane" and the chart story

CONFIRMED: "Flower in a Hurricane" is the song that soundtracked the Grand Theft Auto VI launch trailer. It is by Justice featuring Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and it was released on 15 October 2026, the same day the trailer arrived. Gadgets 360, Game Informer and SPIN all name the same four collaborators and the song is included on the score album. [1]

REPORTED: The track has become a genuine chart story. According to Billboard reporting cited by Consequence, "Flower in a Hurricane" debuted at No. 62 on the Billboard Hot 100, with 4.6 million US streams, 1 million radio audience impressions and 1,000 sales in the 16–22 October tracking period. It is the third song from The Album to reach the Hot 100, following Morgan Wallen's "Last Thing You Need" and Travis Scott's "Rhyno". For King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, it is a first: after 28 studio albums and more than 15 years together, the Australian band's chart debut came through a video game trailer song. [1]

REPORTED: King Gizzard's Stu Mackenzie said in a recent interview that the band submitted six songs to Justice for the game's needs and that some of the others might be included in the game in some capacity, while admitting he did not really know what was happening with them. That account is the band's own, not a Rockstar announcement, so whether any further King Gizzard material appears in the game or on the score album remains UNCONFIRMED. [1]

The radio dial: six stations named so far

CONFIRMED: On 8 October 2026, Rockstar used the Rockstar Newswire to reveal the first six in-game radio stations for Grand Theft Auto VI, with audio previews of each station added to the music page of the game's official website. The six stations are Cocoteo FM, covering modern Latin music from bachata and merengue to dembow and reggaeton; Back Country Radio, playing renegade country across the Grassrivers and Port Gellhorn; AfroBank FM, covering African music from older classics to amapiano and 3-step; The Chamber 106.6, playing metal from the 1980s onward; Flash FM, the returning pop station Rockstar presents as a Vice City institution; and Dirty South Classics, covering regional rap and hip-hop classics. [1]

CONFIRMED: Each station preview names three tracks, making 18 songs the first licensed music Rockstar has tied to specific stations. Cocoteo FM previews include Bad Bunny's "EoO"; Back Country Radio previews include Loretta Lynn and David Allan Coe; AfroBank FM previews include Asake's "Joha"; The Chamber 106.6 previews include Black Sabbath, Pantera and Slayer; Flash FM previews include Charli xcx and MGMT; and Dirty South Classics previews include David Banner and JT Money. [1]

REPORTED: The voices behind the microphones are press-identified rather than named in Rockstar's own post, which uses in-game handles. Reporting names Bad Bunny and RaiNao behind Cocoteo FM's El Martillo and La Gata; Morgan Wallen, Lana Del Rey and Jeremy Dufrene on Back Country Radio; Burna Boy and Palms Trax on AfroBank FM; Slayer's Kerry King and Tom Araya on The Chamber 106.6; Robyn and Alex Consani on Flash FM; and Trick Daddy and Trina on Dirty South Classics. Readers should treat the station names and genres as confirmed and the voice casting as reliably reported, since Rockstar's own announcement used the in-game personas. [1]

CONFIRMED: The same announcement confirmed a series first — on-demand podcasts for Jason and Lucia, with radio and podcasts playable both in vehicles and on foot through headphones and earbuds connected to the protagonists' smartphones. Rockstar has also listed further categories, including classic rock, modern hip-hop, dance, 1980s, electronic, blues, ballads and talk radio but no stations in those categories have been named yet, so their lineups are UNCONFIRMED. [1]

Why one duo for the whole score

Analysis: Giving an entire open-world score to a single duo is a different bet from the one Rockstar made last time. Grand Theft Auto V featured the first full original score in the series, built by a four-way team: Tangerine Dream, Woody Jackson, The Alchemist and Oh No, each capturing a different protagonist's sound, with DJ Shadow mixing the result down. VG247's reporting on that score describes music assembled from elements that could be played together or pulled apart to reflect changing gameplay — the same adaptive problem Justice now face alone. [1]

The single-duo approach has an obvious strength and an obvious risk. One pair of hands across three hours of music can give Leonida a coherent sonic identity in a way a committee cannot and Justice's electronic range suits a state that spans beaches, swamps, cities and highways. The risk is breadth: one duo must cover every emotional register a story of this size demands, from quiet exploration to high-speed pursuit. De Rosnay's comment about freedom to explore suggests Rockstar gave them room to attempt exactly that and the December album will be the first chance to judge whether the gamble paid off outside the game. [1]

Music has always been part of GTA's identity

CONFIRMED: Licensed radio has shaped Grand Theft Auto's worlds since the series' early 3D era. Vice City in 2002 built its identity around a licensed 1980s soundtrack and Flash FM's return in Grand Theft Auto VI is a direct thread back to that game. San Andreas deepened the approach with West Coast hip-hop and era-defining stations and Grand Theft Auto V expanded it further, with more than 240 licensed tracks across its music stations plus two talk stations, alongside its original score. [1]

The pattern across those games is consistent: the radio is not background filler but a way the setting speaks. Stations carry DJ chat and spoof advertising, they mark place and period and they give players a reason to stay in a car after arriving somewhere. VG247's interview with Oh No, one of Grand Theft Auto V's score composers, makes the same point from the other side of the dial — that when driving, players want to listen to the kind of music they want to hear and that the music sets the tone as much as the story. [1]

Grand Theft Auto VI extends that tradition into three layers at once: licensed radio stations with named hosts, a 34-song original-songs album and a single-duo composed score. No previous Grand Theft Auto game has launched with all three in place at the same time, which is why the music rollout — stations in October, The Album in November, the score album in December — has become a story in its own right rather than a footnote to the launch. [1]

What happens next and what is still unknown

CONFIRMED: The calendar from here is short. Grand Theft Auto VI and Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album arrive on 19 November 2026. Justice perform a DJ set at Simifest in Mexico City on 5 December, just before the score release. Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score follows on 11 December 2026 on streaming services, double CD and triple vinyl. [1]

UNCONFIRMED: Several details remain unannounced and this article does not fill them in. The full score tracklist has not been published. The number of digital bonus tracks has not been specified. Regional pricing and availability beyond the announced formats have not been confirmed by Rockstar and retailer listings vary, so no price is quoted here. Whether Rockstar will name further radio stations before launch is also unannounced — the categories are listed, the stations are not. [1]

By mid-December, players will have three distinct ways to hear Leonida: the radio dial inside the game, a compilation of original songs and a composed score album by one of electronic music's most recognisable duos. [1]