{"id":15351,"date":"2026-02-09T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/youtube-music-starts-limiting-lyrics-for-free-users\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:56:17","slug":"youtube-music-starts-limiting-lyrics-for-free-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/youtube-music-starts-limiting-lyrics-for-free-users\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Music starts limiting lyrics for free users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">YouTube Music has started putting lyrics &mdash; a previously free feature introduced in 2020 &mdash; behind a paywall, according to multiple users and <em>9to5Google<\/em>. In the latest update, the &ldquo;Lyrics&rdquo; tab in the Now Playing screen displays a warning message: &ldquo;You have [x] views remaining. Unlock lyrics with Premium.&rdquo; 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<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Google has been testing the feature since at least September with a limited number of users, according to previous reports. It&rsquo;s been speculated 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, but a user backlash forced it to reinstate the feature for free users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">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&rsquo;s Premium subscription costs $10.99 in the US with ad-free playback, offline downloads, AI features and more &mdash; the same as its main rivals Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>YouTube Music starts limiting lyrics for free users<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube Music has started putting lyrics &mdash; a previously free feature introduced in 2020 &mdash; behind a paywall, according to multiple users and 9to5Google. In the latest update, the &ldquo;Lyrics&rdquo; tab in the Now Playing screen displays a warning message: &ldquo;You have [x] views remaining. Unlock lyrics with Premium.&rdquo; Free users get lyrics for five&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/youtube-music-starts-limiting-lyrics-for-free-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;YouTube Music starts limiting lyrics for free users&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}