Tech Desk 
Jul 31, 2024
Spotify has been put on the back foot regarding it charging listeners to access lyrics. This wasn't always the case, back in May, following testing in September last year, the streaming giant began locking lyrics access behind a paywall.
Free users weren’t cut off completely, they were allowed a pretty limited selection of three songs per month. Understandably, this wasn’t the most popular move on the company’s part and upon numerous complaints, changes are finally being made.
In a partial reversal of its original decision, the company has decided to expand the limited selection of songs users can access per month.
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A company spokesperson told TechCrunch: “At Spotify, we’re always testing and iterating. This means the availability of our features can vary across tiers and between markets and devices. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be expanding lyrics availability for Spotify Free users so more people can enjoy viewing more lyrics, globally.”
However, Spotify hasn’t yet disclosed what the new special number will be, one thing’s for sure it’ll have some weight over the current record.
Since the rollout of this new policy, it hasn’t been apparent how much the company has benefitted, considering its reversal, the effects can be considered to have been insignificant.
In the second quarter of 2024, the company reported having 626 million monthly active users of which 246 million are premium subscribers.
