The group winners have been announced -

www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2021

Still no sign of Hyperion coming to streaming so I won't be hearing Alina Ibragimova's winning Shostakovich.

Here you go, from 2014 but still relevant for Hyperion -

“If we had to rely on income from streaming services only, we would shut within a couple of months,” admits Simon Perry, head of the leading classical label Hyperion. “Services like Spotify and YouTube are great for the consumer, but they’re training an audience into thinking that classical music has no intrinsic value in terms of money. And the Spotify model does not work for classical because as a proportion of listeners, there is not enough traffic for it to generate the sort of income a label needs to invest in a performer and recording.”

Perry does not license Hyperion records through Spotify, although he has embraced digital technology elsewhere. “Physical sales are down 25% on last year, so we have to find other ways of generating income. Digital downloads, which we make available through our own website at a very high quality and with loads of metadata like artwork, commentaries, texts and translations, are on the rise. Although not enough to make up the shortfall from physical sales.”

“These are interesting times,” he adds. “And we’ve got to find ways to adapt. I’m generally an optimist, and without wishing to sound naive, we’ve got 80 new recordings being made this year alone. There is still a healthy market for what we produce.”

www.bbc.com/culture/article/20130710-is-spotify-good-for-classical