More Music Industry News: Spotify Conversions, Beatles Down, Google Search, Legos, Thounds & More

It should be an interesting week ahead as The Orchard stock buy-back talks continue and the overall market reacts to economic news and earnings reports. It's also that start of the layoff season which the poor economy could make particularly severe.

• Spotify's free to paid conversion rate is improving. (The Register)
• Beatles albums removed from BlueBeat. (eWeek, Original Story, EMI Gets Injunction)
• Google Music Search: 3 Major Implications for the Music Business. (Mashable)
• New Ways To Steal Music – MP3s Are Being Replaced by Formats With Better Sound Quality (Forbes)
• 4 Ways Live and Digital Music Are Teaming Up to Rock Your World (Epicenter)
• Lego Rock Band review… you know, for the kids! Lego Rock Band adds Lego characters and styling to a family-friendly list of songs, but is that enough to justify the full-priced release? Maybe not, but the songs are good, and fans of the bricks are going to enjoy the funny faces and vehicles strewn throughout. (ars)
• Review: Thounds social music site – Thounds.com is a social networking site centered on the exchange of musical ideas and the creation of original pieces of music through online collaboration. (Music Ally)
• WMG to report earnings on November 24th. (press release)