Apple planning to integrate Beats Music with iTunes next year: Report

The iPhone maker, Apple is reportedly planning to re-launch Beats Music and integrating it with iTunes next year.

Apple bringing Beats Music into iTunes has always seemed like a fairly obvious route for this acquisition to go it seemed more like a question of when it will happen than if it will happen.

However, it's not known what the integration will look like, but Apple CEO Tim Cook has frequently espoused the benefits of Beats' hand-curated playlists, so it's likely that the service's general format won't be going away.

News of the coming integration follows earlier reports that the Beats Music brand may disappear in favor of iTunes. TechCrunch also reported that a major music announcement could come in the first half of 2015.