Did Swifties crash Spotify? Music streaming services suffered glitches as Taylor Swift's latest album dropped 

Taylor Swift's fanbase reportedly caused Spotify to crash after she debuted her new album, The Life of a Showgirl.

The songstress's highly anticipated twelfth studio album went live at midnight on Friday, October 3, prompting a surge in usage on Spotify. Swifties worldwide flocked to the streaming platform to stream the 13 new tracks, resulting in the app freezing, crashing, and failing to load for millions.

DownDetector, an outage detector, clocked over a thousand user complaints at the peak of the surge. Al Jazeera has reported that the album was the most pre-saved album ever on the platform, breaking her own record for last year's album, The Tortured Poets Department.

Taylor Swift says her new album is a "self-portrait": Read more

Taylor Swift took to Instagram on Friday to mark the release of her new album with a heartfelt caption to all her fans:

"Tonight all these lives converge here, the mosaics of laughter and cocktails of tears ... I can't tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right. A forever thank you goes out to my mentors and friends Max and Shellback for helping me paint this self-portrait. If you thought the big show was wild, perhaps you should come and take a look behind the curtain... The Life of a Showgirl is out now."

The artist reunited with the Swedish hitmakers to debut the bouncy pop songs. Ahead of its release, she said the project stemmed "from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life."

As is customary with all her songs, fans will be dissecting the project for easter eggs, which are coded words, phrases, and patterns that could hint at Taylor Swift's personal life or future endeavors.

The album, which features a guest appearance from fellow pop icon Sabrina Carpenter, comes after a transitional period in Taylor Swift's life. In May, she purchased the rights to the masters of her first six albums, officially ending one of the most notorious disputes in the music industry. Scooter Braun previously owned the rights, though he later sold them to Shamrock Capital.

In August, two years after she and Travis Kelce went public with their romance, she announced on Instagram that he had asked her to marry him. She also made an appearance on his New Heights podcast with his brother, Jason Kelce, where she confirmed that The Life of a Showgirl was forthcoming.

"We've never made an album before where it's just the three of us, there's no other collaborators," Swift said of working with Martin and Shellback on her New Heights appearance. "It's just the three of us making a focused album where it felt like catching lightning in a bottle, honestly. I essentially said to him 'I want to be as proud of an album as I am of the Eras tour, and for the same reasons."

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