Thousands of listeners were left without access to songs and podcasts on Sunday after music streaming service Spotify was temporarily unavailable on Sunday.
More than 40,000 people have reported outages with the music platform on downdetector.com, a website that allows users to report problems with popular apps and services. Reports began to increase around 10:45 a.m. ET.
In Spotify’s desktop app, some users were greeted with the “Something went wrong” error message and attempts to play tracks failed. Spotify’s phone app was also unresponsive for some users.
Spotify wrote on X on Sunday afternoon: “We are currently aware of some issues and are checking them!”
In response to the post, Spotify users complained about the outage disrupting workout routines and considered streaming a playlist at a child’s birthday party.
About an hour later, the streaming service announced that everything was much better. The application seemed to work normally.
Millions of people use Spotify, which was the largest streaming service in 2023. The music platform says it has more than 626 million users, with 246 million subscribers.
