diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index f7a3f122be..877c328dda 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -63,8 +63,9 @@ jobs:
           command: openssl aes-256-cbc -d -in gradle.properties.enc -out gradle.properties -k "$KEY" -md sha256
       - deploy:
           name: Maven Central sync
-          command: ./gradlew mavenCentralSync -Prelease.useLastTag=true -x bintrayPublish -x bintrayUpload -x bintrayCreateVersion -x bintrayCreatePackage
-          # Maven Central Sync might take more than 10 minutes per artifact
+          # arbitrarily choose one project to run the `mavenCentralSync` task since all use the same Bintray package
+          command: ./gradlew :micrometer-core:mavenCentralSync -Prelease.useLastTag=true -x bintrayPublish -x bintrayUpload -x bintrayCreateVersion -x bintrayCreatePackage
+          # Maven Central Sync might take more than 10 minutes
           no_output_timeout: 30m
 
 workflows: