<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://display.blogto.com/articles/20250416-spotify-outage-canada.jpg?w=1200&amp;cmd=resize_then_crop&amp;height=630&amp;quality=70" width="100%" /><p>Spotify is down for thousands of people globally.</p><p>All we know is that around 8:00 a.m. EST, the music streaming giant's app stopped working for many users, and looking at <a href="https://downdetector.ca/status/spotify/">Downdetector</a>, the outage appears to be ongoing at the time of writing.</p><p>Spotify has confirmed the outage and, in a <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Downtime-April-16th-App-and-website-not-loading/idi-p/6922020">forum post</a>, has clarified that its tech team is looking into the issue and will post an update once it's been fixed.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">We&rsquo;re aware of some issues right now and are checking them out!</p>&mdash; Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpotifyStatus/status/1912487507616313838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2025</a></blockquote><p>If you're having issues, you can keep your eye on the Spotify forum post, the app's social media or this story for an update.</p>