diff --git a/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/CHANGELOG.md b/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/CHANGELOG.md
index 0f277626446..cbd7386fc3d 100644
--- a/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Entries should include a reference to the Pull Request that introduced the chang
 * [CHANGE] Memcached: Update to Memcached 1.6.34. #10318
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Minio: update subchart to v5.4.0. #10346
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Individual mimir components can override their container images via the *.image values. The component's image definitions always override the values set in global `image` or `enterprise.image`. #10340
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Allow setting different annotations for headless service in the distributor #10485
 * [BUGFIX] Fix calculation of `mimir.siToBytes` and use floating point arithmetics. #10044
 
 ## 5.6.0
diff --git a/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/templates/distributor/distributor-svc-headless.yaml b/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/templates/distributor/distributor-svc-headless.yaml
index aae207d8596..d74d5c1e48f 100644
--- a/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/templates/distributor/distributor-svc-headless.yaml
+++ b/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/templates/distributor/distributor-svc-headless.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ metadata:
     {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
     {{- end }}
   annotations:
-    {{- toYaml .Values.distributor.service.annotations | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- toYaml .Values.distributor.service.headlessAnnotations | nindent 4 }}
   namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace | quote }}
 spec:
   type: ClusterIP
diff --git a/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/values.yaml b/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/values.yaml
index bc693d2232d..b4f8a08109a 100644
--- a/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/values.yaml
+++ b/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/values.yaml
@@ -853,6 +853,7 @@ distributor:
 
   service:
     annotations: {}
+    headlessAnnotations: {}
     labels: {}
     # -- https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service-traffic-policy/
     internalTrafficPolicy: Cluster