While everybody else was having a lovely time, Daniel Glass watched the 2016 Music Week Awards with what he calls a mixture of “inspiration and frustration”.

Glass, you see, is an old school record guy. Founder of the independent entertainment group that (almost) bears his name, after many years in both major label and indie systems, he’s the sort of executive who revels in the mechanics of a hit – the radio plays, the streaming services playlists, the perfectly executed ...