Cardi B brings ‘Don’t Chart’ to the ‘GTA VI’ soundtrack

Cardi B has joined the ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ music rollout with ‘Don’t Chart,’ a new two-minute single released October 8. Apple Music identifies the track as a Washpoppin and Atlantic release under exclusive license to Rockstar Games, placing it inside the official campaign for one of the year’s most closely watched entertainment launches rather than treating it as an unofficial game reference.

The title turns chart pressure into the joke before anyone else can. Cardi delivers the record in the direct, boastful mode that made her a star, over production credited in music reporting to Vinylz and with longtime collaborator Pardison Fontaine among the writers. The song is now available on major streaming platforms; its label metadata confirms the release, but no public chart result existed when this report was prepared.

‘Don’t Chart’ is part of ‘Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album,’ a 34-song companion project scheduled for November 19, the same day as the game. Rockstar introduced the album in September with six original tracks spanning rap, rock, pop and Latin music. Those first releases included Travis Scott’s ‘RHYNO’ and ‘That’s It,’ which pairs Yung Lean with Future and Metro Boomin. Cardi’s song arrived in the next wave alongside ‘Suzuki’ by Fuerza Regida.

That distinction matters because the album and the game’s radio system are related but separate parts of the rollout. Rockstar has also previewed at least six in-game stations—including AfroBank FM, The Chamber 106.6 and Dirty South Classics—and says ‘GTA VI’ will add on-demand fictional podcasts. The company has not said publicly whether ‘Don’t Chart’ will play on a particular station, appear in a story scene or remain primarily part of the external companion album.

For Black music, the placement is bigger than a celebrity cameo. ‘Grand Theft Auto’ has long used radio programming to turn gameplay into a discovery channel, while a simultaneous streaming album lets those songs circulate beyond the console. Cardi joins several Black artists already central to the campaign, and her presence gives a woman rapper a front-facing role in a project whose early rap selections had been led mostly by men.

The single also extends Cardi’s post-album run. Her long-awaited second studio album, ‘Am I the Drama?,’ arrived in 2025, and she followed it with the stand-alone track ‘AH HA’ in July 2026. ‘Don’t Chart’ does not come with an announced new album of her own; it is best understood as a soundtrack release with its own streaming life rather than evidence of a separate Cardi project.

The collaboration shows how video-game launches increasingly function like record campaigns: songs arrive in stages, recognizable artists carry each reveal and the full album becomes a second product tied to launch day. That is an evidence-based reading of the rollout, not a claim about Cardi’s private strategy or the song’s future commercial performance. Financial terms, soundtrack-placement details and the complete 34-track list have not been publicly disclosed.

For now, the verified development is simple: Cardi B has an official new song connected to ‘GTA VI,’ the track is streaming, and the larger album is due November 19. The unresolved questions—where the song appears in the game and how the remaining music will be revealed—belong to Rockstar’s next announcements, not to rumor.