Spotify incident

Downtime August 5th, 2026: "Something went wrong" error on Web Player

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Spotify experienced a critical incident on August 5, 2026 affecting Service, lasting 28m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 05, 2026, 04:46 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 05, 2026, 05:14 PM UTC
Duration
28m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 05, 2026, 04:46 PM UTC

Affected components

Service

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 05, 2026, 04:46 PM UTC

    Hey folks, We're getting some reports that the web player is down and shows a "Something went wrong" error. This is being looked into.

  2. resolved Aug 05, 2026, 05:14 PM UTC

    Status changed to: Fixed