The Music Managers Forum has added its voice to the freshly sparked streaming debate after Radiohead duo Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich slammed Spotify at the weekend.

The MMF has released a statement embracing streaming “as a technological development that adds to the ways that consumers can pay to access music”.

“Any music creation is now potentially ubiquitous, for free, as soon as it is made available digitally,” it says.

The statement continues: “Streaming is in its infancy but ...