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If you’re having a hard time listening to music or loading your next podcast on Spotify, it’s not just you.
The company acknowledged that the popular streaming service was having “some issues right now” in an 8 a.m. Dec. 15 post on Spotify’s X account.
Down Detector indicated problems started shortly before 7 a.m. and were continuing to rise as of 8:30 a.m. More than 5,000 users had filed reports on issues with the app.
Users in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Atlanta were reporting the most issues, though Phoenix users were reporting a significant number of issues, too, Down Detector showed.




