K-Pop Crossover: Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson And The Rolling Stones All Recorded At Their Label's Studio, The Top 5 Record Company Recording Studios [VIDEO]

On Thursday, K-pop mega-label YG Entertainment announced they will open YG Land next year, a top-notch studio facility called YG Land outside of Los Angeles.

According to a press release from the label YG Land will include "recording rooms, practice rooms and more that will help with holding concerts in the US."

But in-house studio facilities are nothing new for record labels. Warner Brothers Records started a revolution in 1957 that still resounds today.

Motown, Stax and Murder Inc. broke stars like Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin and Ashanti. Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan and Metallica all laid class tracks at in-house recording studios.

Here are the top five in-house recording studios in the US.

Columbia 30th Street Studios in New York City.

Tony Bennett said Columbia Studio had the best sounding room in the business. Once considered the greatest recording studio in history, Columbia's 30th Street Studio isn't there anymore. But before it got torn down it was the place all Columbia Records artists from jazz to folk got all to themselves. Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday and Charles Mingus redefined cool for generation after generation.

Chess Studios, Chicago

Chess Records and Chess Studios was one of the most important studios in history. It made history. Not exactly inventing the blues, but close enough for this side of jazz. Purists from Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones had to get in their licks.

Warner Brothers Records

Jack Warner is known as one of the kings of movies. But never underestimate the power of pinching a penny. In 1956, Jack Warner got pushed into setting up an in-house record label. By 1958, the record business topped $500 million in sales and Warner Bros didn't have to pay anyone but Warner Bros. Even the artists were under contract.

Stax Records

Stax Records and Stax Studios mixed Southern soul and Memphis soul and wound up creating funk. The label's house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s had hits on their own and backed everyone from Aretha Franklin to Wilson Picket. When the M.G.s went on tour in England in 1967, John Lennon and George Harrison met them at the airport just to bow before Steve Cropper, the M.G.'s guitarist.

Motown, Detroit

Motown wasn't just a label. It was an education. It didn't just have an A&R department, Motown had a beauty school teaching artists how to walk, talk, dance and dress like stars. Motown didn't just have an in-house studio, it had an in-house studio band, the legendary Funk Brothers, who backed every artist in every style, flawlessly, until Motown moved the studio to LA in 1972.

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