Is Spotify Down? Streaming Service Reports Issues
Tech > Services & Software > Streaming Services Is Spotify Down? Streaming Service Reports Issues Almost 20,000 people reported issues with the music streaming service on Downdetector Tuesday morning. Jon Reed Managing Editor Jon is a managing editor for CNET's news and AI coverage.… Read full bio Jon Reed Managing Editor Read full bio September 29, 2026, 11:25 am ET 1 min read James Martin/CNET Bust out your old CD collection.
- ▪Tech > Services & Software > Streaming Services Is Spotify Down?
- ▪Streaming Service Reports Issues Almost 20,000 people reported issues with the music streaming service on Downdetector Tuesday morning.
- ▪Jon Reed Managing Editor Jon is a managing editor for CNET's news and AI coverage.… Read full bio Jon Reed Managing Editor Read full bio September 29, 2026, 11:25 am ET 1 min read James Martin/CNET Bust out your old CD collection.
5 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 1 hour. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Spotify down: What we know so far — Mashable
- ▪ Spotify is down — live updates as thousands report music streaming service outage — Tom's Guide
- ▪ Spotify is down for many right now —here's what we know about the outage — TechRadar
- ▪ It’s not just you, Spotify is down in partial outage this morning — 9to5Google
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| Canonical URL | https://www.cnet.com/news-live/spotify-outage-9-29-2026/ |
| Publication time | 2026-09-29T15:07:59Z |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T15:31:39.298Z |
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Tech > Services & Software > Streaming Services Is Spotify Down? Streaming Service Reports Issues Almost 20,000 people reported issues with the music streaming service on Downdetector Tuesday morning. Jon Reed Managing Editor Jon is a managing editor for CNET's news and AI coverage.… Read full bio Jon Reed Managing Editor Read full bio September 29, 2026, 11:25 am ET 1 min read James Martin/CNET Bust out your old CD collection. Spotify users reported problems accessing the streaming service Tuesday morning, with nearly 20,000 issues reported to Downdetector as of 10:30 a.m. ET.
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