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Spotify sizzles in the US
I no longer subscribe to Spotify, but I asked my colleague Lance Ulanoff to try it out and he sent me this:
“Although I can still open the app in the US, Spotify is having a hard time responding to any of my requests. I can’t play or search for music.
“The situation is even worse on 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’s going to have to work a little.
Spotify has responded to X users, admitting that it is “aware of some issues” and is checking them out.
We are aware of some issues with the app at this time and are reviewing them!May 12, 2026
You can see in the screenshot below that the numbers increased dramatically: more than 15,000 users reported problems 20 minutes ago.
Okay, so what do we know? Well, outage reports started increasing on Down Detector just under an hour ago.
Hello everyone. I’m going to dive deeper into what’s going on with Spotify, so stay tuned for updates as I get them.
