Apple has told Music Week that it expects September’s eighth annual iTunes Festival in London will be streamed to millions of viewers across the world via the company’s own huge digital reach.

The event will be the first major iTunes-branded outing for Apple since it closed an acquisition of Beats By Dre - encompassing streaming platform Beats Music - for $3 billion earlier this month. 

And despite plenty of industry whispers over what that megabucks purchase might mean for the ...