As you know there is no such thing as free lunch, the Full tracks will cost about £1.5, £2 for a video and a ringtone comes for £3. You can access this service by visiting www.msn.co.uk from your mobile phone or just send an SMS to 63463 (remember U.K customers only). Each download will be charged to the next bill in case of a post-paid or will be deducted from the existing balance in case of pre-paid phones.

All popular smartphones including, iPhone, Blackberry, or any phone running on Symbian can access and use this service.

A research from Mulligan shows that only 9% of the U.K internet users use paid downloads where as 42% of the people preffer music CDs or DVDs. Also, the most popular streaming services used by U.K internet users are Last.fm, MySpace, iPlayer from BBC, etc.. and as musically notes the downloaded songs from MSN U.K are not DRM free and can only be played on the mobile where the songs were originally downloaded.

Keeping all these things in mind it certainly will be interesting to see if the music downloads from MSN gains any popularity.