Spotify is down: everything we know about the music app’s outage

Spotify has now acknowledged that there’s an issues with its streaming service, and that thousands of users weren’t just mis-typing their favorite artist into its search.

Its official Spotify Status account says that “something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it”, but doesn’t give a timescale or a potential reason for the outage. 

We’ve dropped Spotify a line to find out more and will report back with any news. Until then, it’s over to YouTube and finger-drumming…

If you’re finding it difficult to play music on Spotify or generally use its app, you’re not alone – the website Down Detector is seeing a high number of reports from users from around the world that the streaming service isn’t working.

These reports are continuing to spike around the world, suggesting this isn’t a just an intermittent glitch. We’ll update this liveblog with any official news as soon as we hear back from OpenAI.