On Wednesday morning at 8:45AM ET, the Spotify Status account on X acknowledged that “We’re aware of some issues right now and are checking them out!” A check around The Verge’s Slack channel and the wider internet reveals many users in the UK and across other European countries are having issues streaming anything on Spotify, with a significant spike on Downdetector in the UK. In the US, we spotted only a few error messages at first, but now the service has stopped working for us, too. We’ll let you know if there are any other updates. [Image: https://platform.theverge/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/spotify-status-tweet.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]
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