Karl Martin Sandberg, known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish record producer and songwriter.
57 Facts About Max Martin
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Max Martin is the songwriter with the third-most number-one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
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Max Martin has won the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year award a record eleven times.
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Max Martin has received five Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year, and nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Max Martin's mother was a middle school teacher and his father was a police officer.
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Max Martin eventually dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music with his band under the nickname "Max Martin White".
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In 1993, Max Martin was hired by Cheiron Studios and spent some time learning the basics, before the first production collaboration between PoP and Max Martin: the Rednex song "Wish You Were Here" in 1994.
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When Max Martin eventually left his band It's Alive in late 1995, he was replaced by Anders Hansson.
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Later that year, Max Martin co-wrote and co-produced Robyn's hits "Show Me Love" and "Do You Know " which ended up on the Billboard Hot 100 top 10.
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Max Martin wrote two songs with Bryan Adams during this time, "Cloud Number Nine" and "Before The Night Is Over".
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In late 1999, Celine Dion released "That's the Way It Is", a song co-written by Max Martin to promote her greatest hits album All the Way.
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Since the song was released in November 1999, it has cycled 500,000 times on almost 1400 radio stations across Canada and the US In 2003 Max Martin co-wrote and produced three songs for Dion's album One Heart.
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Max Martin wrote, co-wrote, and co-produced 7 out of the 12 songs on the Backstreet Boys' third album Millennium, including all the singles.
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Max Martin again received ASCAP's award "Songwriter of the Year" both in 2000 and 2001.
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Max Martin's melodies are incredible and he is always coming up with weird sounds, which I love.
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That same year, Max Martin co-wrote and co-produced the third single " Crazy".
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Max Martin was the first non-American citizen ever to win ASCAP's prestigious award "Songwriter of the Year" in 1999, an award he won in 2000 and 2001.
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At the request of Spears, Max Martin produced and wrote for Spears' sixth studio album Circus.
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Max Martin co-wrote and produced the provocatively titled electro pop song, "If U Seek Amy", which was chosen by fans to be the third single of the album.
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Max Martin then produced the number one hit, "3", for Spears' compilation album The Singles Collection.
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Max Martin was one of the executive producers of Spears's seventh album, Femme Fatale.
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In 2009, Max Martin co-wrote Clarkson's single "My Life Would Suck Without You", which was a number one hit.
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Max Martin collaborated with Pink for her next album, Funhouse.
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In 2010, Max Martin co-wrote and co-produced Usher's song "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" that went number-one on the US Rhythmic charts and top-ten on the main Hot 100.
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Max Martin worked with Avril Lavigne on two songs, "Alone" and "I Will Be", which were released on some deluxe editions of Lavigne's third studio album The Best Damn Thing.
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Max Martin first worked with Jessie J on her international hit "Domino", which achieved top ten success in countries including Canada and Australia.
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Max Martin co-wrote the songs "Part of Me" and "Wide Awake", the former of which topped the Billboard Hot 100.
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On her fourth album Witness, Max Martin co-wrote numerous songs, including the lead single "Chained to the Rhythm" which peaked at number 4.
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Max Martin has collaborated with American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift on three of her albums.
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Max Martin co-wrote and produced two other singles on the album: "I Knew You Were Trouble", which peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "22".
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Max Martin didn't handle the production of the re-recorded songs.
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Max Martin co-wrote a song called "Message in a Bottle", one of the newly added "From the Vault" tracks.
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Max Martin first worked with Ariana Grande on her second studio album My Everything.
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Max Martin produced the first single, "Problem", which peaked at No 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as No 1 in the UK, later becoming one of the best-selling singles worldwide.
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Max Martin co-wrote and produced four songs from The Weeknd's third album, Starboy.
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Max Martin co-wrote and assisted in the production of "Take My Breath", released in August 2021.
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Max Martin produced or co produced the majority of the songs on The Weeknd's fifth studio album Dawn FM.
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Max Martin appeared as a keyboardist on two singles from Coldplay's eighth studio album Everyday Life : "Orphans" and "Champion of the World".
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In June 2021, Coldplay announced their ninth studio album Music of the Spheres, with Max Martin serving as the album's producer.
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Max Martin is tied only with George Martin for producer with most Billboard Hot 100 number ones.
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Max Martin co-wrote "It's My Life" with fellow Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora.
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On 17 August 2009, American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert announced via Twitter that he was in New York City with Max Martin recording a song for his debut album.
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Max Martin co-wrote "Into the Nightlife", a popular club track recorded by Cyndi Lauper in 2008 and produced, alongside Zedd, and co-wrote "Beauty and a Beat", on Justin Bieber's 2012 album Believe.
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In January 2014, Max Martin produced a two-minute advertisement entitled "Volvo XC70: Made By Sweden", featuring soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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In early 2014, Max Martin co-wrote the song "Dare " for Shakira's self-titled album.
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Between 2014 and 2015, Max Martin executive-produced "Ghost Town" by Adam Lambert.
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In July 2015, Max Martin produced Demi Lovato's song "Cool for the Summer" which reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Max Martin contributed to "Confident" and "For You" from their fifth studio album Confident.
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Max Martin worked with Selena Gomez on her second studio album, Revival, producing its third single "Hands to Myself" which became her third consecutive top 10 hit from the album.
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In November 2015, Adele's album 25 was released and Max Martin co-wrote and co-produced the record's third single "Send My Love " with Shellback, and would eventually become a top 10 hit in the US and the UK.
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In 2019, Max Martin co-produced and co-wrote Ed Sheeran's and Justin Bieber's hit single "I Don't Care".
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In 2020, Max Martin co-produced and co-wrote "Stupid Love", the first single extracted from Lady Gaga's sixth studio album Chromatica.
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In 2022, Max Martin co-produced and co-wrote Maneskin's single "Supermodel".
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Max Martin co-produced and co-wrote Lizzo's song "2 Be Loved ", from her fourth studio album, Special.
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In 2023, Max Martin co-wrote and cow-produced Conan Gray's single "Never Ending Song".
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Max Martin met his wife, Jenny from Morrum, around 2000 and they married in 2011.
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Since 1998, Max Martin has written or co-written 25 Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit songs.