Hitting Amazon Music and Deezer at the Same Time With One Cover

Amazon Music and Deezer don’t get as much attention as Spotify or Apple Music in most distribution guides, but together they represent a meaningful slice of streaming revenue — especially for cover artists chasing genre-specific or international audiences. Deezer has a strong footprint in France and across parts of Europe and Africa, while Amazon Music benefits from being bundled with Prime subscriptions, putting your track in front of listeners who may not actively browse other platforms. The good news: you don’t need to submit twice, license twice, or manage two separate accounts to reach both.

Why treat these two platforms as a pair

Amazon Music and Deezer aren’t identical in how they surface music, but from a distribution standpoint they behave the same way — both require a valid mechanical license before a cover song can go live, and both pull metadata (ISRC, UPC, songwriter credit, original artist reference) directly from what your distributor sends them. If your submission is clean and properly licensed, there’s no reason it should land on one platform but stall on the other.

Where artists run into trouble is usually not the platforms themselves — it’s using a distributor that treats cover songs as an afterthought, requiring a separate licensing request, extra paperwork, or an added fee per platform. That’s the exact friction a distributor built around cover songs is meant to remove.

How the one-submission process actually works

Step 1 — Upload once: You submit your audio file, artwork, and metadata (title, original songwriter, performing artist) a single time through your distributor’s dashboard.
Step 2 — Licensing is triggered automatically: With Globex Music, the mechanical license for the cover is handled as part of the submission — you’re not filing a separate request with a licensing agency or waiting on a third party before distribution can proceed.
Step 3 — Moderation and review: Your release goes through a review to confirm metadata accuracy and licensing eligibility. This step tends to move quickly for straightforward covers with clear original-song information.
Step 4 — Simultaneous delivery: Once approved, the release is pushed out to all 200+ connected platforms at once, including Amazon Music and Deezer, rather than being staggered platform by platform.

Because the delivery is simultaneous, there’s no scenario where your cover shows up on Deezer on a Tuesday and Amazon Music the following week. Minor indexing delays on the platform’s end can still happen — that’s normal and outside any distributor’s control — but the distribution trigger itself fires for both at the same time.

What this costs compared to going platform by platform

Some artists assume more platforms means more fees, especially if they’ve used a distributor that charges per-platform add-ons or takes a cut of streaming income. That’s not how this works with a flat per-release price. Here’s the practical comparison:

Globex Music: $1 per release, covering delivery to Amazon Music, Deezer, and 200+ other platforms combined, mechanical licensing included, no annual fee.
DistroKid: $44.99/year subscription just to keep distributing, regardless of how many platforms you’re targeting.
TuneCore: $24.99/year base fee, plus per-cover licensing fees on top, plus a 20% commission specifically on social platform earnings.
CD Baby: $9.95 per single, plus a 9% royalty commission that applies indefinitely on that release.

If you’re releasing four or five covers a year and want them on Amazon Music and Deezer alongside the bigger platforms, the flat per-release model avoids paying a recurring fee just to maintain access — you pay once per song, not once per year regardless of output.

A quick numbers example

Say you release six covers in 2026, all going to the full platform list including Amazon Music and Deezer. At $1 per release, that’s $6 total for the year. Compare that to TuneCore’s $24.99 base subscription alone — before any per-cover licensing add-ons are even factored in — and the gap is significant for an artist releasing covers regularly rather than once a year.

Payouts once the streams start coming in

Both Amazon Music and Deezer report streaming activity back through standard reporting cycles, and once royalties are collected, payouts through Globex Music start from as low as $10 USD — a low threshold that matters for cover artists whose earnings might be split across many platforms in smaller amounts rather than concentrated on one dominant service.

Practical tips for a smooth simultaneous release

Double-check that the original songwriter’s name is spelled correctly and matches how it appears in public rights databases — mismatches are one of the more common causes of review delays.
Use clean, unmodified audio that clearly represents a cover rather than a remix or mashup, since those fall under different licensing rules entirely.
Submit a few weeks ahead of any target date if you want buffer time for moderation, rather than assuming instant same-day approval every time.
Keep your artist name consistent across releases so Amazon Music and Deezer (and every other platform) build a coherent artist profile rather than fragmenting your catalog under slight name variations.

Reaching Amazon Music and Deezer together isn’t a special feature you need to hunt for — it’s simply what happens when a distributor sends your release to its full platform network in one pass, with licensing already built into the price rather than bolted on afterward.