April 16
The music-streaming app Spotify was down for a good chunk of time this morning, leaving millions of music fans in the lurch. Both the app and web client weren’t working, but service seem to be broadly returned to normal at this point, though lingering bugs may remain.
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Update, April 16, 2025, 11:04AM ET: Added details about Spotify claiming this downtime was not due to a security hack.
Update, April 16 2025, 12:18PM ET: This story and its headline have been updated to note that Spotify is now back online after its outage.
Source: Spotify was down for a while this morning, but it’s back now
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