In June this year, Spotify launched real-time lyrics to 26 countries, now for those times when you’re constantly singing a line of a song but just can’t remember what song those lyrics came from, the streaming app can now help you with that. You can now search for songs by their lyrics on iOS and Android.
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All you need to do is to type in some lyrics into Spotify’s search bar and the app will surface songs that match. Songs that could be what you’re looking for will have a “Lyrics match” tag, as you can see in this tweet from Spotify designer Lin Wang:
My team just shipped something on iOS and Android –
— Lina (@linafab) October 5, 2020
now you can find songs by lyrics 😉 on Spotify
Give it a try 😊 pic.twitter.com/bOs4Ob9O84
Searching by lyrics on this streaming app could be a really helpful feature, especially for the Karaoke fans. Especially those who are bad at remembering song titles, but can usually remember the key line of a chorus. It seems like that’s all one would need to know to be able to find a song on Spotify that’s stuck in their head.
However, Spotify is catching up to Apple with this feature — Apple Music has let you search for songs using lyrics since 2018.
