Spotify Faces Major Outage, Investigation Underway

Spotify, the widely used music streaming service, is currently undergoing a service interruption impacting numerous users as of early Wednesday morning.

The company confirmed the situation on its official Spotify Status account on X (previously Twitter), mentioning, “We’re aware of some issues right now and are looking into it!”

As reported by Downdetector—a platform that tracks the status of online services—reports of Spotify outages started to increase significantly within the last hour. The bulk of complaints seem to be connected to issues with the Spotify mobile application. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Downdetector.)

At present, Spotify has not shared any specifics regarding the reason behind the outage.

As of 10:00 a.m. on April 16, the term “Spotify” was trending on X, with users expressing their annoyance and confusion regarding the disruption. We will keep observing the situation and offer updates as further information is provided.