After ditching Apple Music for their terrible mobile experience on Android (yes, I just didn’t see the need to buy an iPhone solely for Apple Music) even though they were the cheapest streaming platform available at the time – N450/month for the student plan; I used the free plan on Deezer for a while but didn’t feel convinced enough to pay for the premium plan.
I eventually stumbled on Spotify and even though they didn’t support payments from Nigeria at the time, I managed to still get subscribed (using a VPN).
The only downside with Spotify was that I couldn’t get lyrics to the songs I loved so much. I mean, there was Genius, but Genius isn’t exactly a lyrics app and wasn’t available for all songs so that sucked.
Fast forward till a few weeks ago when the Spotify app was updated and BOOM! Lyrics!
I did some digging and found the story of their partnership quite intriguing and in the process acquired a newfound respect for Musixmatch as a company.
Enjoy the scraps 🙂
Sources for Spotify & Musixmatch Partnership Scraps:
- https://blog.musixmatch.com/i-know-its-over-a-parting-of-ways-and-it-s-done-but-didn-t-we-have-fun-8bb27193494d#.fzcobucji
- https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/09/spotify-confirms-its-finally-testing-a-lyrics-feature-in-the-u-s/
- https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/14/spotify-confirms-its-testing-real-time-lyrics-synced-to-music/
- https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/29/in-a-significant-expansion-spotify-to-launch-real-time-lyrics-in-26-markets/
- https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/06/02/spotify-ditched-musixmatch/