YouTube Music is locking full lyrics behind Premium, limiting free users to five views and betting fans will pay up to keep singing along.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Fuller / SOPA Images / Shutterstock.com These days, it seems like you need a subscription for almost everything. You have to pay a monthly fee to store your files in the cloud ...

For a content streaming platform, the core of a premium subscription is to give users an ad-free experience because ads can ruin the viewing experience. Given how frequently ads appear on YouTube videos, the ad-free experience seems more essential than ever for enjoying content viewing on the platform.