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Spotify Hit by Widespread Outage That Crippled Web Player

Crowdsourced reports point to a dominant web‑player failure, leaving Spotify’s public status feed unchanged.

Overview

  • Reports of service trouble began around 11:00am EDT Wednesday and Downdetector recorded a rapid spike in user complaints within an hour.
  • The majority of reports involved the Spotify Web player, with many users seeing a ‘Something went wrong’ error while others reported app malfunctions and stopped playback.
  • Users in the United States, the UK and Europe, Canada, Australia and parts of Asia reported problems that affected both free and Premium accounts.
  • As outlets covered the disruption, Spotify had not posted a detailed explanation and its official Spotify Status account on X was not flagging the outage.
  • Downdetector and social posts are being used to track the incident in real time and users should check Spotify’s support channels for official updates and service-restoration notices.