Spotify is temporarily down as thousands of users report an outage

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

More than 40,000 people reported music platform outages on downdetector.com, a website where users can report problems with popular apps and services. Around 10:45 a.m. ET, reports began to increase.

In Spotify’s desktop app, some users were greeted with the error message “An error has occurred” and attempts to play tracks were unsuccessful. Spotify’s phone app also didn’t respond for some users.

Spotify wrote on X on Sunday afternoon: “We are currently aware of some issues and are looking into them!”

In response to the post, Spotify users complained that the outage disrupted workout routines and planned to stream a playlist at a child’s birthday party.

About an hour later, the streaming service posted that everything was looking much better. The app appeared to function normally.

Millions of people use Spotify, the largest streaming service in 2023. The music platform claims to have more than 626 million users and 246 million subscribers.