Spotify is down: everything we know about the music streamer’s outage

If you’re listening to Spotify and have just been confronted with an ‘artist not found’ message or a broken search function, you’re not alone – a widespread outage has hit the world’s most popular music streaming app.

According to the website Down Detector, the outage hit Spotify at around 5.40am PT / 12.40pm GMT, with over 18,000 reports of issues in the US and almost 8,000 and counting in the UK.

Across social media sites like Twitter, Spotify users have voiced their frustrations of being left without their tunes on long train journeys and commutes. Spotify has also now officially acknowledged that there’s a problem and is “looking into it”.

Here’s everything we know so far about the Spotify outage and when it might be fixed…

If you’re finding it difficult to play music on Spotify or generally use its app, you’re not alone – the website Down Detector is seeing a high number of reports from users from around the world that the streaming service isn’t working.

These reports are continuing to spike around the world, suggesting this isn’t a just an intermittent glitch. We’ll update this liveblog with any official news as soon as we hear back from OpenAI.