The Amazon Cloud Drive/Player is a subscription service offered by Amazon that allows users to access their music libraries and stream songs from any computer or Android device with Internet access. Amazon uses a scan and match technology so that the cloud player will include music purchased from Amazon as well as any other music located the user’s hard drive.
The amount TuneCore Artists get paid for the Amazon Cloud Drive/Player service is based on a unique revenue share model. Each time your music is accessed via Amazon Cloud Drive/Player, Amazon pays you a pro-rated share of the total subscription revenue generated by the Amazon Cloud Drive/Player service that includes both recording and publishing revenue. Keep in mind that the payout rate will fluctuate each month depending on how much subscription revenue was generated and how often your music was re-downloaded and/or streamed. The payout rate can also vary depending on the “tier” of the Amazon Cloud customer (currently it includes Premium tier, Bundled tier, and Introductory tier).
As always, TuneCore will pay out 100% of the revenue it receives from Amazon for your music; however, Amazon Cloud Drive/Player payments are unique in that they include both recording and publishing income. And if you do not control the underlying musical composition(s) to the recording(s), you are obligated to remit the publishing income to whomever owns or controls the musical composition(s); usually the songwriter or his/her publisher.
