Popcaan has released Great Is He, his fifth studio album, on Friday, January 27, 2023, through OVO Sound, the label run by Drake, Wikipedia and DancehallMag report. The 17-track set follows 2020’s Fixtape, and its tracklist was revealed exactly a week before release.
All 17 tracks are in the JamaicansMusic library, sourced from Popcaan’s official YouTube channel: press Play all above to hear the album while you read, open the Great Is He album page, or jump to the track-by-track player below.
Who is on it
Four guests: Drake on “We Caa Done,” Nigeria’s Burna Boy on “Aboboyaa,” former Miss World Toni-Ann Singh on “Next to Me” and Chronic Law on “St. Thomas Native.” Production runs through Kid Culture, Dane Ray, The Fanatix, Anju Blaxx, Dre Skull (three tracks), Tresor and Batundi, TJ Records, Mojam and others.
The road to the album was long. “Skeleton Cartier” came out on March 4, 2022; “Next to Me” followed on November 30 and “Set It” on December 16; “We Caa Done” arrived on January 6 and reached No. 16 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 and No. 36 on the Canadian Hot 100; the title track landed on January 20.
Tracklist
Each title links to the song page in our library, where you can play it, queue it and find the official upload.
- Defeat the Struggle
- Freshness
- Skeleton Cartier
- Next to Me (feat. Toni-Ann Singh)
- Teach Me
- Aboboyaa (feat. Burna Boy)
- 11th Commandment
- We Caa Done (feat. Drake)
- Cry Fi Yuh Body
- Set It
- New Benz
- St. Thomas Native (feat. Chronic Law)
- Wish No Bad
- Appreciation
- Past Life
- Memories
- Great Is He
Update, February 7: Billboard debut
Great Is He opens at No. 3 on Billboard’s Reggae Albums chart dated February 11 and at No. 14 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, DancehallMag reports, citing Luminate figures of 3,200 units in its first week in the United States, 300 of them pure sales. It is Popcaan’s fifth entry on the Reggae Albums chart; his previous four albums each debuted at No. 2.
Listen and dig deeper
- Play the full album on the Great Is He album page — official visualizers from Popcaan’s channel for the standard edition, with the “Skeleton Cartier,” “Aboboyaa,” “We Caa Done” and “Next to Me” music videos in the player.
- Browse the Popcaan artist profile, including Where We Come From in the library.
- From our archive: “Popcaan Illustrates a Paradigm Shift for Dancehall with Debut Album” (2014) and “An Unruly look at Popcaan” (2013).
Sources: DancehallMag — “Popcaan’s ‘Great Is He’ Debuts On Two Billboard Album Charts” (Dani Mallick, Feb 7, 2023); Wikipedia — Great Is He (tracklist and producer credits).
Editor’s note: This story is part of an archive backfill covering Jamaican music news from 2022 to 2026. It is dated to the events it reports.