A clip from the recent batch of leaked GTA 6 gameplay has given fans their first apparent taste of the game’s licensed music, and it arrives the way most players will eventually hear it: through a car speaker. The moment Jason gets into a vehicle, a track kicks in, and it is recognizable enough that people identified it almost immediately.
Quick answer: The song playing in the leaked footage is “Impact” by SG Lewis, Robyn, and Channel Tres. It starts when Jason enters a car, and Rockstar has not confirmed it for any GTA 6 radio station.
What “Impact” sounds like in the leaked GTA 6 clip
The track plays in the background rather than as scored mission music, which is why people read it as radio audio. It comes in as Jason climbs into a car, and the clip runs long enough to catch the “That’s Enough for Now” line before the footage cuts out. That vocal hook is the clearest identifier in the whole clip.
Tonally, it fits. “Impact” is a slick electronic record, the kind of thing that sits naturally under a drive through Vice City, and it lines up with the neon-soaked mood Rockstar has leaned on in its GTA 6 marketing so far.
Why “Impact” is not a confirmed GTA 6 radio song yet
This came out of leaked footage, not a Rockstar announcement. Nothing about the clip proves the song is tied to a radio station, and there are a few reasons to hold off on treating it as settled.
- Rockstar has not commented on the leak or acknowledged any song in the game.
- Background music in a car does not automatically mean a radio station — it could be scored to a specific mission or scripted sequence.
- Leaked builds are not final. Licensing deals can change, and tracks get swapped between a work-in-progress build and release.
Note: the same footage batch has been picked over for other details — Jason attacking a civilian with a wrench, a basketball minigame, wanted-level and HUD elements — so the music is one small piece of a much larger unofficial dump.
GTA 6 songs: confirmed by Rockstar vs. unconfirmed claims
Only two songs have come directly from Rockstar, and both arrived through trailers rather than any soundtrack reveal. Everything else circulating is either a leak or an artist hinting at their own involvement.
| Track and artist | Where it surfaced | Status |
|---|---|---|
| “Love Is a Long Road” — Tom Petty | First GTA 6 trailer | Used by Rockstar |
| “Hot Together” — The Pointer Sisters | Second GTA 6 trailer | Used by Rockstar |
| “Impact” — SG Lewis, Robyn, Channel Tres | Leaked gameplay clip, plays as Jason enters a car | Unconfirmed |
| “Back to Life” — Panama | Artist claim in a since-deleted Instagram post | Unconfirmed |
| Unnamed track — Neon Indian | Artist tease about continued work with Rockstar | Unconfirmed |
Neon Indian is the most plausible of the unconfirmed names simply because of history. “Polish Girl” was on a GTA 5 station, and “Change of Coast” scored the GTA Online intro mission. A returning collaborator saying their relationship with Rockstar isn’t over is suggestive, but it still isn’t a song list.
How a GTA 6 song gets actually confirmed
There are only three ways a track moves from rumor to fact. Rockstar features it in official promotional material, Rockstar publishes it in a station or soundtrack listing, or players hear it in the shipped game. Deleted artist posts and leaked clips do not clear that bar, no matter how convincing the audio is.
Rockstar has historically kept full station lineups quiet until launch, treating the radio dial as something you discover while driving. That makes a complete pre-release song list unlikely, and no official date has been confirmed for any soundtrack announcement.
Why the radio matters this much in GTA
Since Vice City, the stations have done real work — they set the era, carry the tone of a city, and regularly introduce players to music they’d never have sought out. That reach is measurable, too. When Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road” anchored the first GTA 6 trailer, its Spotify streams jumped by roughly 36,979 percent week over week, climbing past 11 million plays within days.
Expect GTA 6 to follow the same template, with a broad licensed mix spread across multiple stations rather than one signature sound. If “Impact” does make the cut, the leak has just spoiled a very small slice of a dial that will take players many hours to work through — and until Rockstar says otherwise, that’s exactly how it should be filed.
