Addison Rae joins Fortnite’s Icon Series with two skins, Jam Tracks and cosmetics inspired by her debut album era
Addison Rae has spent 2026 proving she is a pop star, not just a former TikTok headliner, and Fortnite just handed her one of the genre’s clearest status symbols. On Thursday (Aug. 6), Epic Games officially added the singer to the game’s coveted Icon Series, launching a bundle of cosmetics inspired by her breakout music era in the Fortnite Item Shop. It is a milestone that doubles as validation, cementing Rae’s arrival alongside the small roster of music superstars the world’s biggest battle royale chooses to immortalize in-game.
The centerpiece is a pair of outfits pulled straight from her recent visuals. The Addison Rae Outfit recreates the pink jacket, top, and skirt from her “Fame Is a Gun“ music video, complete with a sunglasses toggle, while the Famous Addison Rae Outfit, modeled on her live stage looks, is a music-reactive skin available in White, Fame Brite (pink and yellow), and Soda Black. The bundle rounds out with two back blings (including an Addison’s Sundae design), two pickaxes, two emotes, a weapon wrap, and Jam Tracks featuring “Diet Pepsi” and “Fame Is a Gun,” letting players spin her hits on the Festival stage.
A Gamer at Heart
Rae framed the collaboration as a full-circle moment rather than a corporate handshake. “I used to play Fortnite quite a lot. I got introduced to it in high school,” the 25-year-old told Teen Vogue. “I also have little brothers that love it, this will be a big flex card.” The teaser leaned into that playful energy too, showing Rae seated in a retro diner surrounded by starstruck Fortnite characters under the tagline “Served hot.”
She also revealed a dream in-game collaborator, naming Chappell Roan as the artist she would most want to team up with on the island, calling her “pretty fearless” and a natural partner. That answer tracks with the company Rae now keeps in the Icon Series, a lineage that recently welcomed Olivia Rodrigo in June and has previously featured names like David Beckham. Icon skins typically retail around 1,500 V-Bucks apiece, positioning the bundle as a premium drop aimed at both gamers and pop fans.
A Breakout Year, Quantified
The Fortnite deal is not an isolated flex. It caps a genuine breakout run for Rae as a recording artist, one increasingly backed by hard numbers. Her self-titled debut album charted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and spawned fan favorites including “Diet Pepsi,” “Aquamarine,” and “Fame Is a Gun,” while her first global headlining tour sold out multiple dates. For an artist whose early fame was rooted in short-form video, that trajectory represents a decisive shift from internet celebrity to charting musician.
Landing in Fortnite matters precisely because Epic is selective about who gets the honor. The Icon Series functions as a kind of cultural shorthand, a signal that an artist has crossed into mainstream ubiquity, and Rae joining a group of women in pop she says she has admired in the game is its own quiet endorsement. “I’ve been a huge fan of everything that they’ve done with a lot of other women in pop music,” she noted of the partnership. “It’s really exciting that they asked me.”
The timing is shrewd. By turning her “Fame Is a Gun” era into playable cosmetics and her singles into Jam Tracks, Rae extends the album’s cultural footprint into a platform with hundreds of millions of players, many of them squarely in her target demographic. It is a savvy piece of catalog marketing dressed as a pop-culture moment. The skins drop hot, the songs travel further, and Addison Rae collects another data point in a year full of them. In 2026, that flex card is fully earned.
