Spotify glitch halts big release of Harry Styles' new track

  • 09/04/2017

A Spotify glitch disappointed teen girls around the world this weekend, with Harry Styles' new track disappearing from the music streaming platform. 

A "technical issue" kept the new single offline for several hours on its first day of release.

'Sign of the Times' is the first highly anticipated solo track from One Direction member Styles, since the boy band disbanded in 2016. 

It was the top trending topic on social media when it debuted at 8am (local time) on April 7, but hearts broke around the world when initially it could not be found on Spotify; either through searching 'Harry Styles' or on the new release playlist. 

Spotify, with a user base of 50 million worldwide, is the world's major music streaming platform. 

Fans were forced to search elsewhere for the new, emotional ballad, meaning on the music video hub VEVO the video racked up more than 6.4 million plays in 24 hours.

Spotify managed to fix the glitch in a matter of hours, and 'Sign of the Times' is now available to stream again. 

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