Is Your Spotify Down? Try These Three Alternatives

At approximately 9 AM ET on April 16, the upset Spotify customers overran social media sites such as X, complaining that either the app wouldn't load or that it wouldn't stream music. Spotify acknowledged the glitch on their official X account saying that they were aware of some issues at that time.

By 10 AM, the real-time outage-monitoring site DownDetector.com featured a staggering increase. There were early 50,000 issue reports.

Although complaints started to recede by 11 AM, it was not because problems were being fixed. The vast majority of users were merely capitulating to waiting out the problem, particularly given that Spotify's support page itself was also subject to loading malfunctions.

No, It's Not a Hack

Rumors soon broke online that Spotify had potentially been hacked. But the official @SpotifyStatus account explained that this wasn't the case. Although the company has not released the specific reason for the disruption or an estimated time for resolution, it maintains that engineers are in the process of addressing it.

With more than 675 million active users globally, this outage is notable—not only for daily listeners but also for artists and podcasters who depend on Spotify's platform to connect with listeners.

Best Spotify Alternatives You Can Use Right Now

If you're desperate to satisfy your music craving while Spotify is out, here are three best-of-breed Spotify alternatives to use in 2025: