Music streaming site Spotify is temporarily down

NEW YORK – Spotify’s music streaming service was temporarily down on Sunday, leaving thousands of listeners without access to songs and podcasts.

More than 40,000 people have reported outages in the music platform on downdetector.com, a website that allows users to report problems with popular apps and services.

On Sunday afternoon, Spotify wrote: “We are aware of some issues at this time and are investigating them!”

In response to the post, Spotify users complained that the break was disrupting their workouts and were planning to stream the playlist at their child’s birthday party.

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

Millions of people use Spotify, which was the largest streaming service in 2023. The music platform says it has over 626 million users and 246 million subscribers.