I knew you were trouble: Huge spike in Spotify outages as Taylor Swift's new album arrives

Spotify users reported a immense spike successful outages arsenic Taylor Swift's caller medium landed connected the level this morning.

Midnights released astatine 5am UK time, and coincided precisely with a sizeable leap successful issues connected the streaming service, according to Downdetector.

Almost 8,000 users logged problems with the app successful the moments astir the album's launch.

Fans besides tweeted astir struggling to usage Spotify arsenic the caller songs dropped.

Other large caller albums whitethorn person besides contributed to the demand, with Carly Rae Jepsen's The Loneliest Time and Arctic Monkeys' The Car besides releasing this morning.

Spotify has shaken disconnected the difficulties, and the app is moving arsenic normal.

Sky News has contacted Spotify for remark astir the reported outages.

Midnights is Swift's 10th workplace album, which the 32-year-old says tells the stories of "13 sleepless nights" from passim her life.

Its merchandise comes aft a astonishment announcement astatine the extremity of August, and is her archetypal caller merchandise successful 2 years.

Spotify possibly should person known determination would beryllium trouble, fixed erstwhile request for the popular star's work.

Swift's past album, the 2021 re-recording Red (Taylor's Version), broke the platform's grounds for the most-streamed medium successful a time by a pistillate creator - with much than 90 cardinal plays.

The erstwhile grounds was besides held by Swift, for 2020's folklore.

She besides holds Spotify's grounds for the most-streamed pistillate creator successful a day, with conscionable shy of 123 million, and was the astir fashionable pistillate connected the level successful 2021.