Spotify down for the second time in five days

A screen displays the logo of Spotify on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City(Picture: Reuters) Music streaming platform Spotify appears to be down, suffering its second outage in five days. At 2.15pm ET on Monday, there were 1,946 reports of Spotify outages in the US, according to Downdetector. By 2.26pm, there were still 1,767 reports of service problems. Users in cities including Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle were among those reporting issues. ‘Spotify down yet again,’ a user commented on the Downdetector page. Another wrote: ‘Oops.’ There were more than 1,900 reports of Spotify being down on Monday afternoon (Picture: Downdetector) The service interruption happened after tens of thousands of users reported problems with the platform on April 16. Users said the platform would not load via the app or desktop and that they could not listen to songs or search for them. ‘We are aware of the outage and working to resolve it as soon as possible. The reports of this being a security hack are false,’ Spotify Status posted on X (formerly Twitter) at the time. The issue started around 6.20am ET on Wednesday and the Sweden-based company sated it was running as normal by 11.45am ET. Metro reached out to Spotify for comment on the latest reported outage. Spotify Status did not immediately post about it on X. Spotify’s last widespread outage occurred on April 16 (Picture: Shutters) Spotify has over 675million users worldwide and about 263million subscribers. Got a story? Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk. Or you can submit your videos and pictures here. For more stories like this, check our news page. Follow Metro.co.uk on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news updates. You can now also get Metro.co.uk articles sent straight to your device. Sign up for our daily push alerts here.