It’s Friday night in the US, and for a while there, music wasn’t playing on Spotify for many people. Users reported that streams suddenly stopped, and for people who logged out, some say they can’t log back in.
The blackout has garnered more than 30,000 reports on DownDetector.com, beginning just before 8 p.m. ET and increasing sharply since then. A enterprise web api status page indicates a “minor” partial outage that affects only the player itself, which is consistent with what we’re seeing, but that’s also the most important part of Spotify.
The Spotify Status Twitter account acknowledged the issues just before 9 p.m. ET, tweeting“we’re looking into it,” eventually following up at 11:16 p.m. ET with a post saying things “are looking a lot better now.”
The last time we noticed this kind of service-wide outage for Spotify, the culprit was a Google Cloud issue, but so far, there’s no indication of a larger cloud or routing issue that could have affected other services.
If you still can’t stream your music, you may need to pass the aux cable to someone who doesn’t have a Spotify subscription (they’ll be easy to spot, they’re the only ones who didn’t post a Spotify Wrapped image on social media a few weeks ago), or do something as archaic as relying on downloaded MP3s or some kind of physical media.
Update at 23:25 ET: Updated with message from Spotify that the service appears to have been restored.
