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Spotify hit by major outage (May 12, 2026)

A major outage is shutting down Spotify. The outage began in the early evening and affects users around the world. The outage makes it impossible to play music through the platform.

Spotify outage

Music lovers will have to do without Spotify for a while. The Swedish music service is suffering from an outage affecting users worldwide. We notice the problems ourselves, and reports of people experiencing problems with Spotify are also circulating on the internet. While search results often load, actual music playback fails. The outage started a little after six o'clock this evening. Not only Spotify's apps are having problems, the music service's website is also unavailable.

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The cause of the outage is not yet known. Nor is it known when the outage will be fixed. When more is known about this, we will update this article.

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