Following Spotify’s Q2 2025 advertising-revenue decrease – and free streaming’s half-year recorded-revenue slip in the U.S. – the platform has loosened some restrictions for ad-supported users.

The Spotify app icon is being displayed on a smartphone with Spotify visible in the background. - Jonathan Raa / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Spotify free users can now search and play specific songs ...

For years, Spotify users running the free experience of the popular music streaming service had to contend with whatever the app threw at them. Playing specific songs was impossible, requiring users ...

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Back in May, Spotify quietly started putting lyrics behind a paywall, limiting free users to lyrics for three songs per month. The move was a bid to push more users to pay for the service. After ...