New Delhi, May 13 -- Music streaming giant Spotify suffered a widespread outage on Tuesday (May 12), leaving thousands of users across the United States unable to stream music, log in, or load the app properly.

The disruption quickly triggered a flood of complaints on social media and outage tracking platforms, making "Spotify down" one of the day's top trending technology topics.

According to outage monitoring platform Downdetector, reports of problems surged rapidly during the afternoon, with more than 13,000 to 15,000 complaints logged during the peak of the disruption.

Later in the day, outage figures crossed 22,000 user reports as the service issues continued affecting listeners across multiple regions.

Users reported several maj...