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The company had previously signed agreements to distribute tracks from Universal in December last year and Sony in April.

The service is yet to be launched, but is expected in the second half of this year, a slight slip from the second quarter target announced by Nokia late last year.

The service is available

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to those purchasing certain new Nokia handsets and will run for 12 months, giving unlimited downloads for a monthly service charge.

Unlike most online music stores, Comes With Music will allow customers to continue playing tracks even once their subscription to the service has expired.

Whether the company will allow customers to amass huge collections of music before canceling the subscription is unclear, although the company claims that users will even be able to transfer tracks from their phone to their PC.

"Once the year is complete, customers can keep all their music without having to worry about it disappearing when their subscription is over," says a Nokia statement release late last year.

If the service proves popular then it could prove to be a huge source of revenue for the company. Nokia sold 146 million handsets last year, potentially giving it a large slice of the digital music market if uptake is strong enough.