This included demands to end safe harbour provisions for platforms for labels to pay all artists a “fair, contemporary digital royalty rate” an end to schemes, such as Spotify’s Discovery Mode, where streaming platforms pay a lower royalty rate in return for enhancing playlist plays and for all platforms to explore different ways of allocating streaming revenue.

This week, European trade body IMPALA issued a 10-point plan to encourage the industry to “make the most of the streaming opportunity”. Some in the business will worry change now could derail that progress. But whether the government follows those recommendations or ignores them, you suspect the genie is now well and truly out of the bottle, and the streaming status quo is under serious pressure to change, even as the latest IFPI and BPI figures show a music business finally getting somewhere close to its previous peaks. Nonetheless, the DCMS Committee members do seem to be leaning towards recommending some form of market change. That’s what this column called for weeks ago, but how likely it is with only the vague threat of a Competition and Markets Authority investigation to force the different parties to the table remains to be seen. Dinenage clearly doesn’t favour government intervention, instead essentially telling the music industry to “get round a table” and sort things out between themselves.

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