Spotify Users Experience Technical Glitch Globally

By Adedapo Adesanya

Spotify users in Nigeria and around the world are currently experiencing challenges with the music streaming app.

Checks by Downdetector, which tracks platforms, showed more than 20,000 people reported Spotify was not properly functioning on Wednesday afternoon.

Users are still able to play music they had downloaded onto their device, and were also unable to view artists or use the search function on the app.

Business Post can also independently verify this issue as efforts to search for songs returned no outcome.

After trying to search for music, the app appears to time out and displays a message reading “something went wrong” with a refresh button.

This is not exclusive to Nigeria as thousands more reported issues in the US and parts of Europe, according to reports.

Spotify in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter said, “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.”

Earlier it had said, “the issue with Search has been addressed” as it was rolling out the update to its users.

As of now, it is unclear how long it will be before the app begins working properly again.

Spotify has more than 675 million users worldwide.