> To me this is as simple as some people made an easily copied site that provides very little value (there's 50+ lyrics sites). Spoken like someone who's never

> To me this is as simple as some people made an easily copied site that provides very little value (there's 50+ lyrics sites). Spoken like someone who's never looked up lyrics online before. Genius is to lyrics what Stack Overflow is to programming questions. In both cases there were/are other sites doing the same thing, but they are ad-riddled, inaccurate, incomplete, and sometimes paywalled.