Spotify services back after a brief outage worldwide

Spotify, the world's biggest music streaming service, was down globally earlier today, affecting hundreds of users who took to Twitter to report the issue.

Published By: Shubham Verma | Published: Apr 19, 2023, 10:07 PM (IST)

Spotify offers trending music and original podcasts with higher sound quality across all devices. It has songs from different genres, countries and decades. Spotify also offers premium service that offers ad-free music, group sessions and up to 10,000 songs download per device. It has a mini plan starting at Rs 7 per day and an individual plan at Rs 119 per month. It also has got a ‘Duo’ plan that has support for two accounts and is available for Rs 149 per month. The last Family plan, which is available for Rs 179 per month and has support for six accounts.

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Audio streaming platform Spotify was back up for most users, the company said on Wednesday, after a brief outage that disrupted service for tens of thousands of users globally.Also Read: OpenAI Brings Spotify, Canva, Coursera and More Inside ChatGPT: Here’s What You Can Do

The company did not disclose the number of users affected by the disruption, but outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed more than 20,000 incidents in the United States and over 8,000 in the UK at the peak of the outage. The site tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.Also Read: Spotify Hikes Premium Subscription Prices In India: Here's What You’ll Now Pay

“Everything’s looking much better now!,” Spotify Status said in a tweet.Also Read: Instagram is Testing Some New Features like Feed Reordering, Quiet Posts and More

Many users took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service disruption, with ‘Spotify’ trending at number seven in the U.S.

spotify why are you down pic.twitter.com/eBTUaUSkTT

— Jellussy (@jellybean735) April 19, 2023

People on Spotify coming over to twitter to check if it’s down. #Spotifydown pic.twitter.com/W9mbao1djC

— Miguel (@5AMinPorto) April 19, 2023

Earlier this year, Spotify experienced two short outages. In January, Downdetector reported that the audio streaming platform’s outage impacted over 45,000 users in the United States.

— Reuters