Thousands of listeners were left without access to songs and podcasts on Sunday after music streaming service Spotify was temporarily down on Sunday.
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. Reports began to increase around 10:45 a.m. ET.
In Spotify’s desktop app, some users were greeted with the error message “Something went wrong” and attempts to play tracks failed. Spotify’s phone app also became unresponsive for some users.
Spotify signed X on Sunday afternoon, “We are aware of some issues right now and are looking into them!”
In response to the post, Spotify users complained about the outage disrupting exercise routines and plans to stream a playlist at a child’s birthday party.
About an hour later, the streaming service wrote that everything looked much better. The app seemed to work normally.
Millions of people use Spotify, which was the largest streaming service in 2023. The music platform reports having more than 626 million users, with 246 million subscribers.