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Spotify sputtering in the US
I no longer subscribe to Spotify myself, but I asked my colleague Lance Ulanoff to give it a try 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 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 are aware of some issues right now with the app and are checking them out!12 May 2026
You can see in the screenshot below that the numbers skyrocketed, with more than 15,000 users reporting problems 20 minutes ago.
Okay, so what do we know? Well, reports of outages started growing on Down Detector just under an hour ago.
Hello everyone. I’ll be digging into what’s going on with Spotify, so stay tuned for updates as I get them.
