Notifications are stopping Spotify playback

[Suisai13]

Multiple notifications are stopping playback while I'm listening to Spotify on my Galaxy S7 Edge. Oddly enough, it was notifications from Spotifiy itself that would cause my music to stop, but I noticed today it was my WhatsApp that did it. This is NOT a Snapchat issue. I don't even have or use Snapchat. I halfway solved the problem by turning off Spotify notifications, but those Spotify notifications are the only way I can see my music while the phone is locked. This is a new bug and not a feature.