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Streaming service back after a short outage

Vaseline 1 month ago

Music streaming service Spotify was temporarily offline on Sunday (September 29), leaving thousands of listeners without access to music and podcasts earlier in the day.

More than 40,000 people reported outages with the music platform on downdetector.com, a website that allows users to report problems with popular apps and services. The highest number of reported outages came just after noon ET. As of 5:00 PM ET, the number of outages reported on the website dropped to 351.

Spotify wrote on X on Sunday afternoon: “We are currently aware of a number of issues and are investigating them!”

In response to the message, Spotify users complained about the outage disrupting workout routines and plans to stream a playlist at a child’s birthday party.

About an hour later, the streaming service reported that everything looked much better. The app seemed to work normally.

Millions of people use Spotify, the largest streaming service in 2023. The music platform reports that it has more than 626 million users, with 246 million subscribers.

According to MusicWatch it is Billboard It was recently reported that Spotify is only behind Amazon Prime when it comes to the passion of its subscribers. When the economy gets rough, Spotify users are relatively unlikely to cancel their plans.

Last week, Spotify announced that The Weeknd has the most songs (18 in total) and has reached 1 billion streams on Spotify as of September 24.

The Weeknd broke a 17-song tie with Drake with the title track from his fourth studio album, After hours. Meanwhile, it was revealed that the set’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Blinding Lights” was the most streamed song on Spotify, with nearly 4.5 billion streams.