Streaming
How to Get Your Music on Amazon Music
Amazon's streaming service across Prime, Unlimited, and HD tiers.
Amazon Music is Amazon's multi-tier streaming service, reaching Prime members, Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers, and Alexa-enabled smart devices in homes around the world. It supports HD and Ultra HD audio.
Why the tiers matter for royalties
Prime, Unlimited, and ad-supported tiers each pay a different per-stream rate, and a play earns on both the recording and the composition side. Reconciling across tiers is where Amazon revenue is easy to under-collect.
How Notes works with Amazon Music
Notes delivers to every Amazon Music tier and reconciles payouts across each, plus the publishing royalties via The MLC and the PROs, so the rate differences between Prime and Unlimited don't end up as missing money.
At a glance
Amazon Music at a glance
- Based in
- United States
- Territories
- Worldwide
How Notes works with this platform
What we do on Amazon Music
- Deliver. Notes ships your sound recordings to Amazon Music as part of every release, with credits and ISRCs included.
- Register. Your songwriter credits are registered with PROs and The MLC so the publishing side of every play is paid as well.
- Collect. Recording royalties from Amazon Music, plus the performance and mechanical royalties behind every play, are reconciled in one place, with no percentage taken.
What you earn here
Royalties Amazon Music generates
- Distribution
- Broadcast
- Publishing
- Performance
Your Amazon Music recording royalties reach you through Notes, and we register you with The MLC and your PRO so the rest is collected too, all paid to you in full with no percentage taken.
- Recording RoyaltiesRecording royalties are what the master earns: the recording revenue your distributor collects, plus digital-performance royalties.
- Mechanical RoyaltiesMechanical royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers each time a composition is reproduced, including every interactive stream and download.
- Performance RoyaltiesPerformance royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers when a composition is performed publicly: on radio, TV, in venues, or via streaming.
Questions musicians ask
Common questions about Amazon Music
- What does an Amazon Music stream pay?
- A play earns on both the recording and composition sides. Amazon Music runs multiple tiers (Prime, Music Unlimited, and ad-supported), and each pays a different per-stream rate, so your earnings depend on which tier the listener is on.
- Why do Amazon Music tiers matter for my royalties?
- Because Prime, Unlimited, and ad-supported each pay a different rate, earnings that span tiers are easy to under-collect. Notes reconciles payouts across every Amazon Music tier so the rate differences don't end up as missing money.
- Does being on Amazon Music collect my publishing royalties too?
- No. Delivery handles the recording side. The composition's mechanical and performance royalties are collected separately through The MLC and the PROs, and only if your songs are registered. Notes registers both sides so the publishing half is collected too.
- Does Notes take a percentage of my Amazon Music royalties?
- No. Notes is a simple $5/month subscription with no percentages and no hidden fees. The royalties from both the recording and publishing sides are paid to you in full.
- What royalty types does Amazon Music pay?
- Amazon Music pays Mechanical and Performance royalties.
- What territories does Amazon Music cover?
- Amazon Music is available worldwide.
- Where is Amazon Music based?
- Amazon Music is based in United States.
More streaming platforms
Notes delivers to all of these
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- YouTube Music
- Tidal
- Deezer
- Pandora
- SoundCloud
- Audiomack
- iHeartRadio
- Napster
- Anghami
- Boomplay
