21st century

==Arts and entertainment==
=== Arts ===
{{main|Contemporary art}}
* ''[[Art:21|Art:21 – Art in the 21st Century]]'' (2001–2018), a PBS series

===Music===
[[File:Taylor Swift Eras Tour - Arlington TX 20230331 - Look What You Made Me Do 1.jpg|thumb|[[The Eras Tour]] of [[Taylor Swift]]]]
{{see also|Category:21st century in music}}
At the beginning of the century, the [[compact disc]] (CD) was the standard form of music media, but alternative forms of music media started to take its place such as [[music downloading]] and [[online streaming]]. A [[Vinyl revival|resurgence]] in sales of [[vinyl records]] in the 2010s was driven by [[Record collecting|record collectors]] and [[audiophile]]s who prefer the sound of analog vinyl records to digital recordings. In 2020, for the first time since the 1980s, vinyl surpassed CDs as the primary form of physical media for consumers of music, though both were still surpassed by online streaming, which by the 2020s became the predominant way that people consumed music.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dean |first1=Grace |title=Americans are spending more on vinyl records than CDs for the first time since the 1980s |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-spending-vinyl-records-cds-2020-data-2020-9#:~:text=LP%20and%20EP%20sales%20totalled,Association%20of%20America%20(RIAA). |website=Business Insider |publisher=Insider Inc. |access-date=26 January 2021 |date=14 September 2020 |archive-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123123918/https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-spending-vinyl-records-cds-2020-data-2020-9#:~:text=LP%20and%20EP%20sales%20totalled,Association%20of%20America%20(RIAA). |url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2020, the most active music streaming services were [[YouTube]] (1 billion monthly music users, 20 million premium subscribers), [[Tencent Music]] (657 million monthly users, 42.7 million premium subscribers), 130 million premium subscribers), [[SoundCloud]] (175 million monthly users), [[Gaana]] (152 million monthly users), [[JioSaavn]] (104 million monthly users), [[Spotify]] (286 million monthly users), [[Pandora (streaming service)|Pandora]] (60.9 million monthly users), and [[Apple Music]] (60 million subscribers).<ref>{{cite web |title=How many users do Spotify, Apple Music and other big music streaming services have? |url=https://musically.com/2020/02/19/spotify-apple-how-many-users-big-music-streaming-services/ |website=Music Ally |access-date=26 January 2021 |date=19 February 2020 |archive-date=12 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112200637/https://musically.com/2020/02/19/spotify-apple-how-many-users-big-music-streaming-services/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Television===
As with music, the story of the first two decades of the 21st century was the growth of [[streaming television]] services in competition with older forms of television, such as [[Terrestrial television]], [[cable television]], and [[satellite television]]. The first major company to dominate the streaming service market was [[Netflix]], which began as a [[DVD]]-delivery service in the late 1990s, transitioned into an online media streaming platform initially focused on delivering content produced by studios, then began to produce its own content, beginning with the popular and critically acclaimed series ''[[House of Cards (American TV series)|House of Cards]]'' in 2013. Netflix's success encouraged the creation of numerous other streaming services, such as [[Hulu]], [[YouTube Premium]], [[Amazon Prime Video]], and [[Disney+]], which within a year of its launch overtook Netflix as the most downloaded television streaming application.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kissel |first1=Chris |title=The 10 Most Popular Streaming TV Services of 2020 |url=https://www.moneytalksnews.com/the-10-most-popular-streaming-tv-services-of-2020/ |website=Money Talks News |access-date=26 January 2021 |date=22 January 2021 |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125200653/https://www.moneytalksnews.com/the-10-most-popular-streaming-tv-services-of-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref>