By almost every metric, Drake’s fifth LP, “Scorpion,” is a blockbuster. In the first three days after its release June 29, it logged enough streams (435 million) to beat a record set by Post Malone over a full week. After two weeks, it reached rarefied territory in today’s music industry: more than one million equivalent album sales.

But can you find a physical copy in New York City? The answer: Not so easily.

Copies of “Scorpion” — CDs only for now; plans for a vinyl release have not yet been announced — became available on July 13. That means the bulk of “Scorpion” consumption has taken place on streaming services, where 1,250 paid streams and 3,750 free streams equal one album; the rest were downloads. Its CDs haven’t registered on the charts yet, and according to Nielsen, which tracks music-industry data, “Scorpion” sold 8,000 physical copies from July 13 through July 17 — a relatively microscopic figure that’s a powerful reminder of how little some artists need physical sales to drive their success.

CD sales have continued to slide as streaming booms, particularly for rap artists, who constantly set and break records and dominate playlists on services including Spotify and Apple Music. Several Top 10 albums on Billboard’s chart this year never received a physical release at all, including Cardi B’s “Invasion of Privacy” and XXXTentacion’s “?”; for Migos and the Carters (Beyoncé and Jay-Z), physical copies were an afterthought, arriving weeks after their albums hit the charts. And an attempt to track down copies of the year’s biggest LP in 16 stores that sell new music across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens proved challenging. Only six stores had them, and prices ranged from $17.99 to $20.99. (A monthly subscription to Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal costs $9.99.)

Representatives from the stores said they had sold around 16 to 18 total copies. Several salespeople said they had received some sort of inquiry about a physical copy, either CD or vinyl, of Drake’s “Scorpion” before its release, which they deemed unusual.