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Musixmatch pulls lyrics from Spotify
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 2 June 2016
If you’ve clicked the ‘lyrics’ button on Spotify at any point in the last week, you will have found… nothing. The provider of those lyrics, Musixmatch, pulled its content last Friday, seemingly as a result of a dispute over new terms in the two company’s agreement.
“We regret the end of this partnership, but we must keep to our product and our users above all else”, wrote Musixmatch CEO Max Ciociola in a blog post on the sudden removal of lyrics from Spotify. “We will not allow anybody to ignore our business model”.
The partnership between the two companies began in 2015, and continued alongside Spotify’s separate deal with Genius on an annotated lyrics feature, which was launched in January.
