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YouTube Music has started putting lyrics \u2014 a previously free feature introduced in 2020<\/a> \u2014 behind a paywall, according to multiple users<\/a> and 9to5Google<\/em><\/a>. In the latest update, the \u201cLyrics\u201d tab in the Now Playing screen displays a warning message: \u201cYou have [x] views remaining. Unlock lyrics with Premium.\u201d Free users get lyrics for five songs, then after that, will only see a few lines before the rest of the song is blurred.<\/p>\n Google has been testing the feature since at least September with a limited number of users, according to previous reports<\/a>. It\u2019s been speculated<\/a> that YouTube may have made the change to recuperate costs spent with lyric aggregators like Musixmatch. Spotify also put lyrics behind its Premium paywall in 2024<\/a>, but a user backlash forced it to reinstate the feature<\/a> for free users.<\/p>\n Google has yet to confirm the change, and while it appears to be a larger rollout, the feature change could still be in testing. YouTube Music\u2019s Premium subscription costs $10.99 in the US with ad-free playback, offline downloads, AI features and more \u2014 the same as its main rivals Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.engadget.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YouTube Music has started putting lyrics \u2014 a previously free feature introduced in 2020 \u2014 behind a paywall, according to multiple users and 9to5Google. In the latest update, the \u201cLyrics\u201d tab in the Now Playing screen displays a warning message: \u201cYou have [x] views remaining. Unlock lyrics with Premium.\u201d Free users get lyrics for five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2273812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[440125,344775,344776],"class_list":["post-2273811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-free-feature","tag-google","tag-youtube-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/YouTube-Music-starts-limiting-lyrics-for-free-users.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273813,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273811\/revisions\/2273813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}