Twelve Artists Priced, Six Credited: GTA 6 Album Metadata

by 6Charts Team Category: news 6 min read

This desk's editor fetched https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6812476961&entity=song&limit=50 at HTTP 200 and 44,943 bytes at 2026-10-02T03:43:36Z and https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/events?slug=who-will-be-featured-on-gta-vi-the-album at HTTP 200 and 49,794 bytes at 2026-10-02T03:43:56Z. CONFIRMED by those fetches: the collection "Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album", trackCount 34, releaseDate 2026-11-19T08:00:00Z and a copyright line reading "(P) 2026 Atlantic Recording Corporation and Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc." where the source prints the phonogram symbol and this desk writes (P) instead of reproducing the glyph; exactly 6 of 34 track rows carrying a real artist, Yung Lean on track 2, Travis Scott on 4, CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso with PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and Etienne de Crecy on 5, Morgan Wallen on 8, Rauw Alejandro on 11 and Keith Richards on 32, with the other 28 rows reading artistName "unknown" and trackName "Track N"; and the market's createdAt of 2026-09-17T22:37:21.57249Z, event volume 27774.903077 and all 12 rungs by last trade from Don Toliver at 0.86 down to Nettspend at 0.03. The editor computed the set intersection as EMPTY, zero of twelve. This desk's own arithmetic: 6 of 34 rows is 17.6 per cent, leaving 28 rows or 82.4 per cent uncredited; the twelve last trades sum to 4.27, which constrains nothing because the outcomes are not mutually exclusive; this market carries 10.71 times the volume of the Metacritic ladder read the same morning; the market was 14 days, 5 hours, 6 minutes and 34 seconds old at the fetch; and 2 October is 48 days before release. LIMITS printed in full: an empty intersection is not evidence of absence; Apple is a retailer and not the publisher; Kodak Black's last trade of 0.51 sits below its own bid of 0.77 and Sexyy Red's bid of 0.42 sits 40 cents below its ask, so these are thin, wide books and last trades are not prices; the market's named resolution source is a Rockstar page which researcher 3 declined to crawl on robots.txt grounds while researcher 1 fetched Rockstar with a desktop browser user agent, and that split is disclosed; and a market price is never a forecast this desk endorses. rockstargames.com/robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot by name and this desk's fetches use a standard desktop browser user agent against specific public URLs rather than crawling.

Polymarket is running a twelve name market on who features on Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album. Apple's live record for that album lists 34 tracks and names a real artist on exactly six of them. The intersection of those two lists is empty. Not one of the twelve names being priced appears among the six credited acts or the featured artists named inside their titles. That emptiness is a fact about metadata, and this article is careful about what it does and does not imply. CONFIRMED. This desk's editor fetched https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6812476961&entity=song&limit=50 and received HTTP 200 at 44,943 bytes at 2026-10-02T03:43:36Z, then fetched https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/events?slug=who-will-be-featured-on-gta-vi-the-album and received HTTP 200 at 49,794 bytes at 2026-10-02T03:43:56Z. What the album record actually contains The Apple record gives the collection name "Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album", a trackCount of 34, a releaseDate of 2026-11-19T08:00:00Z and a copyright line of "(P) 2026 Atlantic Recording Corporation and Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc." The source prints the phonogram symbol at the start of that line, and this desk writes it as (P) rather than reproducing the glyph. Thirty four track rows came back. Six carry a real artist name. The editor read all six out: TrackArtist, as servedTitle, as served 2Yung LeanThat's It (feat. Future & Metro Boomin) 4Travis ScottRHYNO 5CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, PinkPantheress, Fred again.. & Etienne de CrecySexy Magic 8Morgan WallenLast Thing You Need 11Rauw AlejandroMacacoa 2000 32Keith RichardsBright Lights, Big City The other 28 rows carry an artistName of "unknown" and a trackName of "Track N", where N is the slot number. By this desk's own arithmetic, 6 of 34 rows is 17.6 per cent of the album with a public credit, leaving 28 rows or 82.4 per cent with no artist attached to them anywhere in that record. What the market is pricing The Polymarket event was created at 2026-09-17T22:37:21.57249Z and carries an event volume of 27774.903077 across twelve rungs. The editor read them by last trade: Name pricedLast tradeAppears in the Apple credits?This desk's reading Don Toliver0.86NoBid 0.82, ask 0.87, volume 4703.562806. The most actively traded rung and the tightest quote on the board. Kodak Black0.51NoBid 0.77, ask 0.85, volume 4305.074075. The last trade sits 26 cents BELOW the rung's own bid, which marks it as stale. Sexyy Red0.43NoBid 0.42 against an ask of 0.82. A 40 cent spread leaves no price in between, only two parties standing far apart. Osamason0.42NoNo credited track and no named feature. The Weeknd0.40NoNo credited track and no named feature. Bad Bunny0.35NoNo credited track and no named feature. Playboi Carti0.33NoNo credited track and no named feature. Drake0.30NoNo credited track and no named feature. Kendrick Lamar0.27NoNo credited track and no named feature. Frank Ocean0.25NoNo credited track and no named feature. XXXTentacion0.12NoNo credited track and no named feature. Nettspend0.03NoLowest rung on the board. The set intersection was computed by the editor and it is empty. Zero of twelve. The six credited acts are Yung Lean, Travis Scott, the combined credit on track 5, Morgan Wallen, Rauw Alejandro and Keith Richards, and the two featured names printed inside a title are Future and Metro Boomin. None of the twelve priced names is in either group. An official Rockstar screenshot already published on Rockstar's own media pages, showing in game characters in a recording booth. It is not a photograph of any real artist, it has no connection to the album's tracklist, and it is not evidence about who features on the record. Why the empty intersection is weaker evidence than it looks Twenty eight of the 34 rows have no public credit at all. That is room for any of the twelve names, and more. An empty intersection today shows that the market is pricing names against metadata which cannot yet confirm or deny them. It does not show that any of the twelve is absent from the album, and this desk is not reporting it that way. There is a second reason to be careful. The market's own resolution language points at Rockstar's official music page as the source of record, not at Apple. A storefront track listing fills in slot by slot as singles are delivered to retailers, and the credit on a slot can appear weeks after the slot does. Thin books, loud numbers Two rungs show plainly that these are not consensus probabilities. Kodak Black's last trade of 0.51 sits below its own bid of 0.77, which is arithmetically possible only because the last trade is a historical print rather than a quote. Sexyy Red's bid of 0.42 against an ask of 0.82 leaves a 40 cent gap where a price would be. Any reader treating a single last trade on this board as a market level is reading a stale print. Two further figures, both this desk's own arithmetic. The twelve last trades sum to 4.27, which is not constrained to anything in particular, because an album can credit many artists and these outcomes are not mutually exclusive, so the sum carries no information about coherence. And this market's volume of 27,774.903077 is 10.71 times the 2,594.271006 carried by the Metacritic ladder this desk also examined this cycle, which makes it the more heavily traded of the two Grand Theft Auto VI markets on the venue. Where this sits in the calendar The album's own record gives a release instant of 2026-11-19T08:00:00Z, the same day the game ships. The market was created at 2026-09-17T22:37:21.57249Z and read at 2026-10-02T03:43:56Z, which is 14 days, 5 hours, 6 minutes and 34 seconds of life, and 2 October is 48 days before release. Those three intervals are this desk's own arithmetic. This desk has already covered the 34 slot structure and the six delivered singles, and those pieces are on the news index. For the communities that will be running launch night, see the server list. Limits, stated plainly An empty intersection is not evidence of absence. 28 of 34 rows carry no credit. Any of the twelve priced names could appear on any of them, and nothing above rules a single one out. Apple is a retailer, not the publisher. The track rows are a commerce record maintained by a store. They are not a Rockstar tracklist announcement and they can change without notice. Last trades are not prices. Two of the twelve rungs print a last trade below their own bid or carry a 40 cent spread. This desk reports them as prints and does not present any of them as a probability. The resolution source was not read by the researcher who filed this. The market resolves on Rockstar's own music page. Researcher 3 treated rockstargames.com/robots.txt as binding, which disallows ClaudeBot by name, and so did not crawl that page. Whatever Rockstar has or has not published there is outside what that researcher could stand behind, and this article makes no claim about it. Researcher 1 on the same desk did fetch Rockstar's properties with a desktop browser user agent, and that split in practice is disclosed here because a reader is entitled to know about it. A market price is not a forecast this desk endorses. Nothing above is a prediction about who features on the album. One instant each. The album record describes the response served at 2026-10-02T03:43:36Z and the market the response served 20 seconds later. Retrieval method, disclosed. Neither Apple's lookup service nor Polymarket's API is a Rockstar property, but every fetch this desk makes uses a standard desktop browser user agent against a specific public URL rather than crawling, and rockstargames.com/robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot by name, which is why that disclosure appears in every article in this batch.