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Spotify Suffers Widespread Outage

Outage trackers counted thousands of reports, prompting Spotify to say its teams are investigating.

Overview

  • Spotify acknowledged app problems Tuesday on its X account and said engineers were looking into the issue.
  • Outage trackers logged tens of thousands of user reports, including more than 15,000 in the US and about 16,000 in the UK.
  • Users most often said the app would not load, with other complaints about login, search, audio playback and server connections.
  • Reports pointed to a global disruption, with issues noted in the United States, the United Kingdom, Colombia, Spain and North Macedonia.
  • Spotify’s public status page initially showed no incident, and outlets said there was no confirmed cause or timeline for full restoration.