One of the biggest selling points for the Zune HD has been Microsoft’s Zune Pass subscription system. Well, it seems that even though the UK hasn’t got the Zune HD yet, they are getting a Zune Pass-like service from Satellite broadcaster Sky.

The new service is going to be called Sky Songs and customers will be able download and keep up to 1 album, or 10 assorted songs for a £6.49 a month subscription fee. Any song to keep beyond that will cost 65p a track. Music you stream via your PC rather then download and save will be ad free and unlimited, just as with a Zune Pass.

As with iTunes Plus, songs downloaded using Sky Songs can be played on any MP3 player, not just a single device.

The service will launch on October 19th with a catalogue of songs from major labels such as EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner, as well as over 100 independent labels.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).