Raoul Chatterjee doesn’t look like a man under pressure. Music Week meets him at MIDEM, where he cuts a rare cool, calm, deal-making figure amidst the hot and flustered Britpack coping with the searing Cannes heat.

But surely even Chatterjee’s reserves of serenity have been tested since he joined SoundCloud as director of content partnerships, Europe, at the tail end of 2015.

The unsung streaming platform – beloved of hipsters, DJs and fans with an aversion to paying for music, ...