Amazon Music Distribution from India

Amazon runs four music products: Amazon Music Unlimited (paid premium), Amazon Music Prime (free for Prime members), Amazon Music Free (ad-supported, no Prime needed), and the legacy Amazon MP3 store. SMSound India delivers your release to all four in a single upload.

Unlimited subscribers pay the highest per-stream royalty rate; Prime delivers higher volume at a slightly lower rate; and the ad-supported Free tier produces the biggest top-of-funnel discovery numbers in India. Your dashboard breaks earnings down by tier.

Alexa is one of the largest voice-driven music discovery surfaces globally — every "Alexa, play..." request is routed against Amazon Music’s catalogue first. The accuracy of voice search depends almost entirely on metadata: artist name spelling, alternate spellings, featured-artist credits, and song title cleanliness.

SMSound India runs every release through an Alexa metadata QC step before delivery — checking for diacritics, transliteration edge cases (especially for Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi names), and feature-artist syntax — so your tracks return reliably when a listener asks Alexa for them.

Amazon Music Unlimited delivers HD (16-bit/44.1 kHz) and Ultra HD (up to 24-bit/192 kHz) lossless streams to subscribers on supported devices. When your studio masters in higher than 16/44.1, SMSound India delivers the high-resolution master to Amazon as well as the standard CD-quality file.

Higher-resolution masters often earn slightly higher per-stream rates and surface in Amazon’s "Ultra HD" editorial collections — a relatively under-competed editorial real estate.

Twitch (owned by Amazon) launched a music licensing pathway that lets streamers play distributed music during live streams without DMCA strikes. When your master is delivered to Amazon Music through SMSound India, you can opt into the Twitch Soundtrack catalogue at no additional cost.

For independent artists in electronic, hip-hop, lo-fi, gaming-adjacent, and instrumental genres, Twitch licensing produces both a small per-stream royalty and a meaningful discovery funnel into Twitch’s gaming audience.

After your first release goes live, SMSound India sends the Amazon Music for Artists invite. Inside the artist app you get streams by country, listener demographics, save and follow rates, and Alexa request data — useful for understanding voice-driven discovery patterns.

Amazon reports monthly. SMSound India pays out in INR to your Indian bank account, PayPal, or Payoneer with applicable TDS handled. Twitch Soundtrack earnings appear on the same statement as the rest of your Amazon Music revenue.