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What do you do when Spotify goes down?
It looks like this outage may be a relatively short-lived one, thankfully — because it can be hard, being cut off from your favorite music source.
Right, big news… Lance says it’s coming back. I’m still seeing reports on Down Detector, but they are indeed starting to drop.
Spotify sputtering in the US
I no longer subscribe to Spotify myself, but I asked my colleague Lance Ulanoff to try it, and he sent me this:
“Even though I can still open the app in the US, Spotify is struggling to respond to any of my requests. I can’t play or search for music.
“The situation is even worse on the desktop. After a long wait, I got Spotify to open in Chrome, but when I tried to log in, I got an error message. No music for me.”
Poor Lance, he’ll have to do some work instead.
Spotify has responded to users on X, admitting that it is “aware of some issues” and that it is checking them out.
We’re aware of some issues right now with the app and are checking them out!May 12, 2026
You can see in the screenshot below that the numbers climbed steeply, with more than 14,000 users reporting problems 20 minutes ago.
Okay, so what do we know? Well, outage reports started growing on Down Detector just under an hour ago.
Hi everyone. I’m going to dig into what’s going on with Spotify, so stay tuned for updates as I get them.
