What would a Taylor Swift album launch with out a few information damaged? How a couple of damaged streaming service?
Swift dropped her tenth studio album, Midnights, at midnight final night time, leading to followers dashing to numerous streaming platforms to listen to the 13-track album. On account of the massive quantity of very sudden visitors, it seems Spotify briefly crashed for a lot of listeners.
In keeping with Downdetector.com, Spotify noticed an enormous world outage at midnight ET Friday (Oct. 21), which simply so occurs to be the precise time Swift dropped the album.
Previous to the album’s launch, one Twitter consumer and Swift fan truly predicted Spotify would crash as a consequence of Swift’s album launch.
“now wtf we do if Spotify crashes,” Twitter consumer @folkloreroads tweeted at 3PM ET Thursday (Oct. 20), 9 hours earlier than Midnights dropped.
Certainly, they had been proper on the cash.
“STOP U PREDICTED IT,” one other Twitter consumer replied to them.
In the course of the transient Spotify outage, Swift followers shared their reactions on social media, with many expressing their frustration. Some followers panicked as they tried to determine easy methods to stream the newly-released album from the “Anti-Hero” singer.
Nonetheless, the Spotify crash solely seems to have lasted a couple of minutes, and never all customers had been affected.
See hilarious reactions to Spotify’s (fortunately non permanent) Taylor Swift crash final night time:
