Massive Outage: Spotify Faces Downtime for Thousands

Audio streaming platform Spotify experienced a significant outage, affecting over 40,000 users as reported by Downdetector. Many users took to social media platform X to report the disruption. Despite the outage, Spotify's paying subscriber base rose to 246 million in Q2 2024.

Audio streaming platform Spotify was down for thousands of users on Sunday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Downdetector, which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed about 40,602 affected users in the United States. Many users took to social media platform X to share updates about the service disruption.

In the second quarter of 2024, the number of paying Spotify subscribers rose to 246 million.