YouTube Music starts putting lyrics behind a paywall

Free YouTube Music accounts are present seeing their entree to lyrics limited, according to multiple reports. Google started testing lyrics arsenic an exclusive diagnostic for Premium users successful September, but it appears that it's present receiving a wider rollout. It seems that escaped users volition beryllium constricted to viewing lyrics for 5 songs per month, though we've reached retired to Google for confirmation.

Once that bounds is reached, users volition lone beryllium capable to spot the archetypal mates of lines. Everything beyond that volition beryllium blurred out, and they'll beryllium prompted to "Unlock lyrics with Premium." The banner informing users astir their constricted lyric views remaining appears …

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