Apple Music's Beats 1: what you need to know

Apple is launching the Zane Lowe-fronted radio station with its Spotify-like streaming service. Here's what we know and what's yet to be revealed

The days of big surprises from Apple are mostly in the past. As the scale of the company has grown, it has become unable to prevent leaks somewhere along its chain.

That's doubly true when dealing with the notoriously gossipy music industry, so it shouldn't be a surprise that nearly everything about Apple Music, the company's new Spotify competitor, was known long in advance of the service's announcement.