Jay sold outvplenty in his own right, Drake has always been a commercial artist.

You can replace Jay-Z' name with literally any artist in the entire history, and the result would be the same. No artist has more hits and classics than Drake.

Drake had the hits before streaming and unlike Jay he didn't rely on female singers

Jay Z been getting radio play spanning FOUR decades so whether he has/doesn’t have more “hits” than Drake doesn’t mean he isn’t a legend in his on right

A pop star having more hits than a rapper isnt really a shock

Its just sad people keep talking about 'hits' all the time instead of talking about quality of song instead

Classics?? Lol. Let’s keep it to hits please.

I love when old heads ( can’t think of a better term lol) act like the past was more accurate if a song was a hit or not when radio was the dominant reason it was one and ignore how radio used to be blatant with payola lol.

Jay DEFINITELY has more classics than jay.... as do plenty of other artists

drake stans really are crazy

That's not his point. Wayno isnt intelligent when it comes to jay z

Exactly. It was a different system back then.

Most singles didnt chart unless it was an official single pushed to stores and radio. Usually 3 to 5 songs per album.

This is even different from the iTunes era where every song was able to be purchased individually.

Streaming makes it to where every song on the album can chart if you are popular and have momentum, which will inflate the # of hits make it to BB by design.

Some Drake stans just dont want to accept that but it's a very important factor when making generational comparisons today.

If you didnt hear Tom Ford or Story of OJ on radio you didnt have it on a rap station lol.

Don't care, hov better

Jay-Z is an album artist first and foremost

Drake hasn't been since 2013/2015

I almost shed a tear to this post

Thank you

Drake has had more hits than Jay Z since before the streaming era and it's not close. More top 10 hits, more top 20 hits and more top 40 hits, along with more radio hits.

Since some of you want to use the streaming era to take away from Drake's ridiculous dominance

Obviously bruh

After the album drops drake gon be the artist with the most top 10 hits of all time

Krazy but true

Drake has more hits than Wayne? really?

Tbh Jay-Z era everything was getting bootlegged and pirated

IYRTITL is the most illegally downloaded project across of all time across all genres. Thank Me Later, Take Care and Nothing Was the Same leaked days/weeks before they dropped.

Which you again are making direct comparisons in situations where you can't really make a direct one.

Drake by design is a different artist than Jay Z. Drake's versatility and persona makes it easier for him to chart with White/Mainstream audiences than Jay, which is typically Top 40 territory.

You really cant make a truly equal comparison to them that is fair. All things considered Drake should be more successful by nature.

Kanye, maybe Andre 3000 are the only other superstar artists before Drake that had similar levels of versatility, had longevity and had an adjacent persona of being that non gangsta Unicorn in Rap.

Gen Z here, Jay Z has a bunch of hits, not as much as Drake but still

All of this matters in context because Jay Z has a 24 year professional rap career, while Drake is barely 11 years in and he's already outdone Jay Z in every single metric of commercial success. 10 more years of Drake doing this and the gap will be too wide for anyone to bring up these sort of silly debates. Drake is the greatest and most consistent hitmaker in hip-hop history and it's been that way since the last decade.

Jay Z has more classic records.