Spotify customers reported an enormous spike in outages as Taylor Swift’s new album landed on the platform this morning.
Midnights launched at 5am UK time, and coincided precisely with a sizeable leap in points on the streaming service, in line with Downdetector.
Almost 8,000 customers logged issues with the app within the moments across the album’s launch.
Fans additionally tweeted about struggling to make use of Spotify as the brand new songs dropped.
Other main new albums might have additionally contributed to the demand, with Carly Rae Jepsen’s The Loneliest Time and Arctic Monkeys’ The Car additionally releasing this morning.
Spotify has shaken off the difficulties, and the app is working as regular.
Sky News has contacted Spotify for remark concerning the reported outages.
Midnights is Swift‘s tenth studio album, which the 32-year-old says tells the tales of “13 sleepless nights” from all through her life.
Its launch comes after a shock announcement on the finish of August, and is her first new launch in two years.
Spotify maybe ought to have identified there can be hassle, given earlier demand for the pop star’s work.
Swift’s final album, the 2021 re-recording Red (Taylor’s Version), broke the platform’s file for the most-streamed album in a day by a feminine artist – with greater than 90 million performs.
The earlier file was additionally held by Swift, for 2020’s folklore.
She additionally holds Spotify’s file for the most-streamed feminine artist in a day, with simply shy of 123 million, and was the preferred lady on the platform in 2021.
Source: information.sky.com”