With the workweek just getting underway, the music streaming service had to contend with "login and playback issues."

Reports aggregated by Downdetector show a major spike in Spotify complaints shortly after 9am ET/6am PT on Monday. Users say they are unable to load Spotify, browse their library, play music and podcasts, and more. The outage appears to be widespread, though not everyone is affected.

Spotify faced a widespread outage, with over 20,000 users reporting issues on Downdetector, signalling a major disruption rather than a minor glitch. As the platform stayed down globally, social media filled with memes and jokes about users being left with nothing to listen to.