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Spotify is temporarily off the air because thousands of users report an outage
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Spotify is temporarily off the air because thousands of users report an outage

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Thousands of listeners were without access to music and podcasts on Sunday after music streaming service Spotify was temporarily offline on Sunday.

More than 40,000 people reported outages with the music platform on downdetector.com, a website that allows users to report problems with popular apps and services. The reports started to peak around 10:45 a.m. ET.

In Spotify’s desktop app, some users were greeted with a “Something went wrong” error message and attempts to play songs were unsuccessful. Spotify’s phone app was also unresponsive to some users.

Spotify wrote on X on Sunday afternoon: “We are currently aware of a number of issues and are investigating them!”

In response to the message, Spotify users complained about the outage disrupting workout routines and plans to stream a playlist at a child’s birthday party.

About an hour later, the streaming service reported that everything looked much better. The app seemed to work normally.

Millions of people use Spotify, the largest streaming service in 2023. The music platform reports that it has more than 626 million users, with 246 million subscribers.