Heads up: music streaming service Spotify appears to be down this morning.
According to IGN’s sister website Downdetector, Spotify outages started being reported round 6 a.m. PT right this moment, and on the time of this piece had been nonetheless flooding in. We ourselves had been unable to entry the service for a lot of the morning, and after we had been capable of get the app to open, it would not play music.
Spotify has acknowledged the problems and says it is “working to resolve it as quickly as potential.” The firm additionally confirmed that studies of the outage being associated to a safety hack had been false.
We are conscious of the outage and dealing to resolve it as quickly as potential. The studies of this being a safety hack are false.
— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) April 16, 2025
IGN will proceed to observe the state of affairs and publish updates as they occur.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can discover her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a narrative tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
