Rocket Racing’s music is an entirely original electronic score. No preexisting licensed songs were used in races, and there was no in car radio system; insted, external EDM artists and a music agency wrote original commissions alongside in house work (roster below). No source (Epic blogs, wikis, soundtrack databases, community rips) documents any licensed artist race music, and the Fortnite Wiki’s Rocket Racing hub has no music section at all, a negative finding replicated across every source checked (Wikipedia, Fortnite Wiki). Officially, the score has no author: khinsider, Fandom, 4nite and fnzone all list no artist, and in Fortnite Festival, RR derived tracks are credited simply to “Epic Games” (Fortnite Tracker, YouTube). File metadata naming, community uploads mirroring it, and one first party credit establish the roster:
| Artist | RR tracks attributed | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Garrett Williamson | WCC 1, WCC 2 (1, 2) | Confirmed: his own credits page lists “Fortnite: Rocket Racing (Composer / Mix Engineer) (2023)” (garrett-williamson-music.com), the only first party credit found for the entire score |
| Stonebank (Monstercat) | Don’t Stop (upload), Delmar West (upload) | File/community attribution (unverified; no self announcement found) |
| Pegboard Nerds (Monstercat) | Depends On U (upload), Heroes Theme (upload), On And On (upload) | File/community attribution (unverified) |
| Nokae (Monstercat; artist page) | Song 1 (upload), Anime EDM (upload) | File/community attribution (unverified) |
| ThirtyTwoMusic (Thirty Two Music Ltd., London agency; Toby Slade-Baker & Alex Lodge; thirtytwo.tv, Fortnite work) | Later season BGM filed as “ThirtyTwoMusic Track N”, e.g. Track 4 “Inferno Island”; also composed the three unreleased Cars collab soundtracks, preserved in this archive with the literal file prefix ThirtyTwoMusic__Rocket_Racing_Pixar_Cars_Track_N (see Section 16) |
File naming attribution |
| Epic Games (in house) | Gallery 2 Remix (upload) | File/community attribution |
| Unattributed | 100 Years | · |
The Monstercat roster presence (Stonebank, Pegboard Nerds, Nokae) mirrors Psyonix’s long Rocket League-Monstercat soundtrack relationship, but note these RR titles match no prior Monstercat releases (Monstercat’s “Don’t Stop” is a GG Magree song), i.e. they were written for the mode. No official Epic/Psyonix credit list was ever published (see Section 22). Psyonix’s longtime in house artist Mike Ault (Rocket League Theme, RLCS Theme; Spotify) has no sourced tie to Rocket Racing.
14.1 The Rocket Racing Theme & the “Del Mar” codename
The mode launched with the “Rocket Racing Theme” (2:58), distributed as a Rare Lobby Music item available December 8, 2023 to March 8, 2024, description “Press play and race to the finish!” (Fortnite Wiki). Its item ID is MusicPack_199_DelMarDefault (added Dec 4, 2023, per 4nite.site). “Del Mar” is Rocket Racing’s internal codename, echoed in gamerip track names like “Delmar West” and “Delmar And Bass” (file verified via the DelMar plugin paths; see Section 13.1). The theme also scored the mode’s reveal: the Dec 2, 2023 Big Bang event’s Rocket Racing segment used a “Main Theme (Big Bang Remix)” (gamerip tracklist; event music upload (unverified)). Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” performance at that event belonged to the Festival segment, not RR (Variety).
14.2 The full score: the 29-track gamerip
The fullest record of the score is a community gamerip on khinsider (29 tracks, 1h50m, 214 MB; developer credited “Psyonix,” publisher “Epic Games”; uploaded Aug 27, 2024) (album). It shows the score was organized by place and season: a Main Theme family for menus/lobby/pre race, per environment race tracks, “Rush Remix” variants introduced for Neon Rush, and new pieces named after Inferno Island’s courses (supported by the rip’s naming plus per track uploads like “Inferno Island Music: Track 1”; community sourced, unverified).
| # | Track (gamerip naming) | Era / role |
|---|---|---|
| 1-3 | Main Theme (Big Bang Remix) · Main Theme (Lobby Music) · Main Theme Interlude (Leaderboards, Pre Race) | Reveal + menus, launch |
| 4-15 | WCC 1 · WCC 2 · Don’t Stop · Delmar West · Delmar And Bass · Sky Surfer · On And On · Heroes Theme · Depends On U · 100 Years · Song 1 · Anime EDM | Launch era race/lobby music |
| 16-19 | Sky Surfer (Lobby Music) · HEAT · Sunstream · Third Wheel | Launch/Season era additions |
| 20-23 | Delmar West (Rush Remix) · WCC 2 (Rush Remix) · Anime EDM (Rush Remix) · Sky Surfer (Rush Remix) | Neon Rush (Apr 2024) remixes |
| 24-29 | Inferno Island (Lobby Music) · Inferno Island (ET) · Seafoam Cove · Obsidian · Skull Rock · Hotter | Inferno Island (Jul 2024), named after its courses |
Neither the Neon Rush nor the Inferno Island launch blog says a word about music, and no licensed trailer song is documented for either season; community uploads label trailer/season music by in game score names (e.g., “Third Wheel,” “Capturelight”) (example, unverified).
14.3 Music as cosmetics: Lobby Music packs & the Festival crossover
RR’s season anthems were shipped as collectible items, creating a genuine Fortnite Festival crossover:
| Item | Type / rarity | ID | How obtained | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocket Racing Theme | Lobby Music, Rare | MusicPack_199_DelMarDefault | Login reward window Dec 8, 2023 to Mar 8, 2024 | wiki, 4nite |
| Sky Surfer (Neon Rush Remix) | Lobby Music, Rare + Festival Jam Track | MusicPack_205_RRNR | Ch5 S2 (Apr 9, 2024), “Press play and light up the streets.” | 4nite, fnzone, Jam Track page |
| Inferno Island (Molten Mix) | Lobby Music, Uncommon + Jam Track | MusicPack_214_InfernoIsland | Complete all 8 Inferno Island Week 1 quests, “Press play and burn rubber... and maybe the car.” | fnzone, GameRant |
| Inferno Island (Original) · Ocean Breeze Beats · Paradise Pulse · Sizzlin’ Sunshine · Tropical Heat | 5 Jam Tracks (lobby playable) | · | v31.40 (Oct 12, 2024) Weekly Quests, weeks 1-5: “You’ll unlock Jam Tracks (playable in the Lobby) when you complete the Week 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 Quests!” | Epic v31.40 blog |
These jam tracks have full Festival charts and leaderboards, credited to “Epic Games” (Fortnite Tracker).
14.4 Music in UEFN Rocket Racing islands
Creators had almost no audio control. The RR Competitive Race Manager device exposed exactly one music setting, “Music Selection”, described as “The musical track that plays for players during the race.” Epic’s docs list three options, Fortnite (default) / Canyon / None (Epic docs, rechecked July 2026), but the actual in editor dropdown contains a fourth, Neon (firsthand creator report: shrezee; presumably added with Neon Rush and never documented). What the options map to sonically is undocumented; plausibly the default RR race music, the canyon biome music, and the Neon Rush score respectively. The cancelled Pixar Cars collab would have extended this exact system: three new ThirtyTwoMusic songs were built as additional Music Selection entries with ready data assets, to play randomly on the Cars maps (firsthand datamine: shrezee; see Section 16; audio preserved with this archive). The RR device set includes no Radio or Audio Player device, and RR devices have no Verse APIs, so custom music on RR tracks was effectively impossible (Epic docs) (negative finding).
14.5 Preserving the score
With the mode shutting down October 2026, third party rips are the score’s only lasting record:
- khinsider · Rocket Racing Theme (2023): the 2:58 theme single (added Dec 14, 2023; no composer listed).
- khinsider · Rocket Racing gamerip (2023): the full 29-track rip; the best OST document.
- koba.cat FORTNITE MUSIC ARCHIVE: 1,800+ tracks / 16 GB FLAC through Oct 2025; RR audio lives in its “Other Modes” album (430+ tracks, shared with Creative/LEGO), mirrored on MEGA and the @FortniteOST YouTube channel.
- SoundCloud lobby rip: Rocket Racing Theme lobby music (unverified).
- Racing Soundtracks · Rocket Racing page: soundtrack database entry (not fetchable from the research environment; existence unverified).