Drake performs at the FADER FORT Presented by Converse during the South by Southwest Music Festival on Saturday in Austin, Texas. (Jack Plunkett, AP) New York - Drake smashed a streaming record on Sunday as the Apple-backed Canadian rapper's latest album scored the biggest debut on the US charts this year. The songs on Views, which came out on 29 April, were streamed 245.1 million times in the United States in the week through Thursday, according to tracking service Nielsen Music.