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UPDATE: Apr. 19986 Archives 2023, 1:57 p.m. EDT According to Spotify, services are now up and running. The company tweeted that "everything's looking much better now." The below article has been updated to reflect this.

If you experienced silence via Spotify on Wednesday, know you're not the only one.

Spotify was down for many users today, with problems reported on both mobile devices and desktops. Songs weren't playing and many artist and album pages had difficulty loading.

The music platform took to Twitter to acknowledge the issue and confirm it was investigating.

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Thirty minutes later, Twitter posted an update suggesting the issue had been fixed.

According to Downdetector, a site that tracks the status of major websites in real time, there have been over 7,500 reports of outages worldwide on Spotify today. (Editor's note: Downdetector is owned by Mashable's parent company, Ziff Davis).

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Mashable has reached out to Spotify for further information.

Suffice to say, users were not happy.

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