Apple music to go live

APPLE Music is well-placed to take on rival service Spotify, which recently announced it had reached 20 million paid subscribers,

APPLE Music is set to go live despite a run-in with Taylor Swift over royalties ahead of the launch.

THE new service is being offered free from Tuesday to users for the first three months. But the pop sensation stepped in and threatened to withhold her music when it emerged that no royalties would be paid to artists for that period.