Breaking News: Spotify Outage Reported

Attention all music lovers: Spotify, the popular music streaming service, experienced an outage starting around 6 a.m. PT this morning. According to Downdetector, a site that tracks online service interruptions, reports of the outage have been pouring in throughout the morning. Our team at IGN also faced difficulties accessing the service, and even when we managed to open the app, it refused to play any music.

Spotify has officially acknowledged the issue and is actively working to resolve it as quickly as possible. The company has also debunked rumors circulating about the outage being caused by a security hack, confirming that these claims are false.

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 (@SpotifyStatus) April 16, 2025

IGN will keep a close eye on the situation and provide updates as new information becomes available. Stay tuned for the latest developments on this issue.