SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2026
The world's biggest video game is becoming one of the world's biggest record labels. Rockstar Games and Atlantic Records released two new singles from Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album this week — Cardi B's "Don't Chart" and Fuerza Regida's "Suzuki" — pushing the revealed tracklist to 8 of 34. And here's the part that should make every other soundtrack in gaming sit down: the first six singles already debuted inside Billboard's Top 10s.
Yes, the soundtrack for a game that isn't out yet is charting. Read that again.
Two songs, two worlds
According to RockstarINTEL and GTAVice, both covering the October 8 announcement, the new singles are streaming now on all major platforms. "Don't Chart" puts one of rap's biggest names on the official soundtrack, and "Suzuki" brings one of música mexicana's biggest crossover acts — the San Bernardino group Fuerza Regida — into the Leonida fold.
The rollout has been pure GTA theater. As Consequence reported, the whole thing started with a leak: Spotify's listing for the album briefly showed Fuerza Regida and Cardi B as the artists behind unrevealed tracks — Track 10 and Track 19, per Rockstar Games reporter Ben (videotech), one of the first to spot it — before the listing was pulled. LavX's report on the leak landed October 4, days before any official word.
Then came the teases. RockstarINTEL noted that Cardi B posted a photo of herself in a hoodie featuring Lucia, the game's protagonist — basically winking at the camera. And on October 7, Fuerza Regida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz shared a short Instagram video of himself driving a black Ferrari, the clip repeatedly drawing attention to a custom license plate reading "VICE CITY" with "LEONIDA" across the top — a direct nod to the game's city and state, according to Consequence, which documented the video. The next day, both songs were out. Rockstar confirmed the double release in an official post on October 9.
The first six were already hits
What's wild about this rollout is that Rockstar and Atlantic aren't dropping singles into a vacuum — they're dropping them into a chart. The first six singles arrived September 17: Yung Lean's "That's It" (featuring Future and Metro Boomin), Travis Scott's "RHYNO" (produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo), the CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso x PinkPantheress x Fred again.. x Etienne de Crécy collab "Sexy Magic," Morgan Wallen's "Last Thing You Need," Rauw Alejandro's "Macacoa 2000," and Keith Richards' "Bright Lights, Big City" — all per NME and RockstarINTEL.
And the results, per BroadwayWorld's report on the Atlantic partnership: "Last Thing You Need" debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Macacoa 2000" debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs. "Sexy Magic" entered the Top 10 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. BroadwayWorld called it Atlantic's biggest soundtrack launch to date.
Think about that lineup for a second. A reggaeton star, a country superstar, a Rolling Stone, an Argentine duo, a hyperpop darling, and a French electronic producer — plus Travis Scott and Future and Metro Boomin. This isn't a soundtrack. It's a festival lineup wearing a video game's clothes.
What we know about the album
The album is all original music — 34 tracks "made for Vice City and Leonida," according to Rockstar and Atlantic, with the game releasing November 19, 2026, and the album dropping the same day. Vinyl and CD pre-orders are open now, and GTA6InfoHub notes the album is coming on standard CD, vinyl, and liquid-filled collector's discs.
Twenty-six tracks are still unrevealed. The leaked Spotify listing hinted at where Cardi B (Track 19) and Fuerza Regida (Track 10) sit in the sequence — but Consequence and LavX both caution that the leak was pulled and never officially confirmed, and the track numbers came from a leak, not Rockstar. What IS confirmed: eight songs streaming, 26 to go, six weeks to launch.
The Latin presence on this album is worth its own paragraph. Rauw Alejandro's "Macacoa 2000" already hit Latin Songs' Top 10. Now Fuerza Regida — a group Consequence describes as one of música mexicana's biggest crossover acts, pushing corridos and regional Mexican music further into the U.S. mainstream while repeatedly reaching the upper tiers of the Billboard 200 — is officially in. Plus a modern Latin radio station, Cocoteo FM, anchoring the in-game dial. Rockstar isn't treating Latin music as a flavor on this soundtrack. It's a load-bearing wall.
The bigger play
Here's what Rockstar is actually doing: it's turning the six weeks before launch into a music-industry event. Singles drop, they chart, the game drops, and 34 songs arrive as the score of the most anticipated entertainment release of the decade. The GTA franchise has used licensed music as a cultural event since the radio stations started breaking songs — Vice City's '80s soundtrack basically curated a generation's taste. Now Rockstar is skipping the middleman and commissioning the canon itself.
And for Cardi B, the timing is loud. "Don't Chart" arrives as fans wait for word on the follow-up to Am I the Drama?, her 2025 album. Whatever comes next from her, it's arriving through the biggest game of the year first.
