YouTube Music Now Shows Lyrics On Now Playing Screen

Earlier this week, Google throughout its quarterly earnings name revealed that YouTube Premium and Music has 20 million paying subscribers. YouTube Music is now starting to roll out built-in lyrics on Android.




Lyrics are accessible from the now enjoying display by tapping the data icon to the left of the track identity. This slides up a panel that notes the view and like depends, in addition to shortcuts to the total artist and album web page.

There’s now a “Lyrics” part beneath with textual content displayed in white towards the themed background that’s based mostly on album cowl artwork. Scrolling to the very backside reveals the place Google sourced the lyrics from.

Some music movie characteristic lyrics, with Google noting when they don’t seem to be accessible. It is an easy characteristic for YouTube Music so as to add, but it surely does cut down on customers having to make a separate Google Search.

Lyrics in YouTube Music aren’t broadly rolled out. A server-side replace, it didn’t seem on a number of units we checked this afternoon. Given the standard characteristic parity, it must also be accessible on iOS, and hopefully the net sooner or later.