music streaming service status

Is Spotify Down Right Now?

spotify.com is currently Up

HostTracker's monitoring network reached spotify.com and completed a full check without errors. Currently up for 5d 4h.

Last checked just now from 300+ worldwide locations

Live monitoring

Live Spotify Status

Operational

Current status

Operational

Currently up for 5d 4h

Last check

just now

Checked every 10 minutes

Last 24 hours

100.00%

0 incidents, 0m down

7-day uptime

100.00%

30-day uptime

100.00%

Response Time

Last 30 days

510 ms avg

510 ms

Average

97 ms

Minimum

4157 ms

Maximum

Monitored checks

HTTP

Operational

Ping

Operational

Page Speed

Operational

Uptime History

1 incident · 0m total · longest 0m

Daily uptime

90 days ago Operational Degraded Down No data Today

Started Duration

Jul 23, 2026 20:23 UTC 0 min

Why it happens

About Spotify Outages

Spotify is the world's most-used music and podcast streaming service, and it lives in more places than most apps — phones, desktops, web players, smart speakers, TVs, cars, and game consoles all talk to the same backend, and third-party devices depend on its API to function at all. Outages therefore show up in confusingly different ways: search dies while cached playlists keep playing, the app logs everyone out at once, or a smart speaker goes silent while the phone app works. Spotify's infrastructure runs on Google Cloud, so upstream cloud incidents can ripple into it, and its sign-in options through Facebook and Google accounts add dependencies that can fail independently of Spotify itself. A multi-location reachability check quickly establishes whether Spotify's service is unreachable in general or whether the trouble is limited to one device, account, or network.

Common Causes of Spotify Downtime

Playback failures where the app opens and browses normally but songs won't start, skip instantly, or stop after a few seconds

Search, browse, and recommendation outages while already-cached playlists and downloaded music keep working

API problems that silence connected devices — smart speakers, car systems, and DJ apps — while Spotify's own apps stay up

Not sure whether it's Spotify or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.

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Frequently asked questions.

How can I check right now if Spotify is down or if it's just me?

The instant check tool above tests spotify.com live from HostTracker's network of 300+ worldwide locations at once, rather than from just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Spotify being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.

Can I get alerted automatically the next time Spotify goes down?

Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL — including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website — as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.

Can I still listen to my downloaded music if Spotify is down?

Usually yes. Premium subscribers' downloaded playlists are stored on the device and play in offline mode without contacting Spotify's servers, so during most outages switching to offline mode keeps downloads working. The exception is authentication: Spotify clients periodically revalidate the account, so if an outage coincides with your app deciding it needs to re-authenticate — or the incident actively logs users out — downloads can become temporarily inaccessible until service returns. Free-tier users, who can't download, lose playback entirely during a streaming outage.

Why does Spotify work on my phone but not on my smart speaker?

Third-party devices — smart speakers, TVs, car head units — use Spotify's public API and Spotify Connect, which are distinct subsystems from the first-party mobile app's own streaming path. Incidents regularly affect one without the other: Connect device-handoff can break while direct playback works, or the API can throw errors that make a speaker report Spotify as unavailable while your phone streams normally. If your phone works, also try re-linking the device or restarting it, since a stale cached login on the device is a common local cause of exactly the same symptom.

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