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The way in which people listen to music has changed "dramatically" (in major ways) over the past few decades (10-year periods, such as the 1960s, 1970s, etc.). Beginning in the late 1940s, people were listening to "pop music" (popular music) on "vinyl records," or a disc of flat, normally black plastic with many "grooves" (small carved areas) that a record player "needle" (the pointed part of a record player) rested in to produce recorded sounds. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, vinyl records "gave way to" (became less common or popular as something else became more common or popular) to "4-tracks" and "cassette tapes" where music was recorded on long tapes that required rolling forward or backward to find a particular song. "Compact discs," or "CDs" became popular in the 1980s, but then they gave way to "MP3s" (digital sound) and "streaming audio" (music that is heard while it is played on the Internet).

Usually, the old "audio format" (a way of listening to recorded sound) "fades away" (begins to disappear) as buyers begin to like and use new technologies. But beginning in the early 2000s, there was a "vinyl revival" in which people began "bringing back" (using again) vinyl records. There is a "resurgence" (an increase back to previous levels) of the popularity of vinyl, especially among "Millennials" (young people; the generation of people who became adults around 2000), who do not even remember the time when records first "came out" (became available for consumers to buy).

Vinyl records "represent" (make up) only a small "portion" (part; fraction or percentage) of all music sales, but "fans" (people who enthusiastically like something) "rave" (say good things) about the "tactile quality" (the ability for something to be touched and felt) of vinyl records.