YG Entertainment Expands Recording Facilities To Make Way For 4 New Groups In 2014

When YG Entertainment co-founder and CEO Yang Hyun Suk offered his yearly address regarding upcoming plans for his record label, earlier this week, there was one detail highly overlooked in the media frenzy over the new details he offered on the new 2NE1 album and video--the record label's expansion.

"2014 is expected to be a more important year than any other ones for YG," Yang wrote.

"To put it bluntly, 2014 is like a year of big gambles that will determine what the next 10 years will bring for this record label."

And at least four of those gambles will be in the form of new groups in the YG Entertainment roster, the K-pop music mogul explained.

"Not only is it a year where YG's main artists PSY, BIGBANG and 2NE1 are releasing albums for the first time in a while, but it is also a year where sensational four new groups of YG will be unveiled, after a very long period of preparing and training," Yang said.

"It takes YG several years to produce an album for the existing artists, and they're unveiling four new groups. Four? I agree that this is not an easy task, so I choose to use the word 'challenge.' And since it's also risky, I say this is a "gamble" for us, but we are determined to achieve the goal. And the only way to reach the goal is to produce good music."

But in order to make more music from more bands, more often, it's of course necessary to have more space.

"This calls for maximizing the talents of YG artists with composing and writing skills, as well as more than ten YG composers," he wrote.

"In order to do this, we expanded our music studio, recording and dance training rooms for the last few months, while also arranging meetings with foreign music producers for active collaboration."

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