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Spotify goes down worldwide

Artist pages weren't loading either, in case anyone was trying.
By Meera Navlakha  on 
The Spotify website on a laptop.
It's not just you. Credit: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Images

UPDATE: Apr. 19, 2023, 1:57 p.m. EDT According to Spotify, services are now up and running. The company tweeted that "everything's looking much better now." The below article has been updated to reflect this.

If you experienced silence via Spotify on Wednesday, know you're not the only one.

Spotify was down for many users today, with problems reported on both mobile devices and desktops. Songs weren't playing and many artist and album pages had difficulty loading.

The music platform took to Twitter to acknowledge the issue and confirm it was investigating.

Thirty minutes later, Twitter posted an update(opens in a new tab) suggesting the issue had been fixed.

According to Downdetector(opens in a new tab), a site that tracks the status of major websites in real time, there have been over 7,500 reports of outages worldwide on Spotify today. (Editor's note: Downdetector is owned by Mashable's parent company, Ziff Davis).

A graph showing a spike in outages on Spotify.
Credit: Downdetector

Mashable has reached out to Spotify for further information.

Suffice to say, users were(opens in a new tab) not(opens in a new tab) happy(opens in a new tab).

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Meera is a Culture Reporter at Mashable, joining the UK team in 2021. She writes about digital culture, mental health, big tech, entertainment, and more. Her work has also been published in The New York Times, Vice, Vogue India, and others.


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