21st century

===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>