Central Cee‘s newly-released album Can’t Rush Greatnessis expected to have a superb opening week — an estimate from Hits Daily Double has the UK rapper moving around 37,000 units.
The outlet published its numbers on Friday (January 31), and said that the performance of the rapper’s debut LP means that it will be in the week’s top 10, alongside projects by Bad Bunny, SZA and Kendrick Lamar.
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According to their “Hits Top 50” chart, 10K of Central Cee’s 37K total was album sales, and almost the entire rest of the total was from streams.
The Billboard 200 album chart’s top 10 will be released on Sunday (February 2), so fans will be able to see final numbers then, if the rapper charts that high.
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Cee, for his part, has admitted that he “likes” the fact that he did not feature Drake on Can’t Rush Greatness.
Speaking on Dutch radio station FunX, the British rap star revealed that he has an unreleased collaboration with Drizzy in the stash, but is glad that he chose not to put it on his recently released debut LP.
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“I’m sure there’s a Drake record in the vault,” he said. “But it seemed like it was predictable. I think everybody was thinking that there’s gonna be a Drake record on there. So I like the fact that there wasn’t.”
Cench also hinted that he was “saving” the song he recorded with the 6 God, with whom he previously collaborated on a viral freestyle for On the Radar.
The freestyle was released commercially in 2023 and led to Central Cee cracking the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the first time as it peaked at number 80.
While Drake did not appear on the tracklist for Can’t Rush Greatness, the 26-year-old did recruit a number of American all-stars for the album including Lil Baby, 21 Savage and Lil Durk, as well as fellow Londoners Skepta and Dave.
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The project has already been hailed as one of the best rap releases of 2025 so far and is expected to make a splash on the Billboard 200.
