If you don’t know the name Max Martin. You havent listened to pop music in the last 30 years
I don’t know who Max Martin is and…
Have you heard any of these number ones?
- 1998 – "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears
- 2000 – "It's Gonna Be Me" by NSYNC
- 2008 – "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry
- 2008 – "So What" by Pink
- 2009 – "My Life Would Suck Without You" by Kelly Clarkson
- 2009 – "3" by Britney Spears
- 2010 – "California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg
- 2010 – "Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry
- 2010 – "Raise Your Glass" by Pink
- 2011 – "Hold It Against Me" by Britney Spears
- 2011 – "E.T." by Katy Perry featuring Kanye West
- 2011 – "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" by Katy Perry
- 2012 – "Part of Me" by Katy Perry
- 2012 – "One More Night" by Maroon 5
- 2012 – "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift
- 2013 – "Roar" by Katy Perry
- 2013 – "Dark Horse" by Katy Perry featuring Juicy J
- 2014 – "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift
- 2014 – "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift
- 2015 – "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar
- 2015 – "Can't Feel My Face" by The Weeknd
- 2016 – "Can't Stop the Feeling!" by Justin Timberlake
- 2019 – "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd
- 2021 – "Save Your Tears" by The Weeknd and Ariana Grande
- 2021 – "My Universe" by Coldplay and BTS
- 2024 – "Yes, And?" by Ariana Grande
- 2024 – "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" by Ariana Grande
Dammit I count 11. But having heard a song doesn’t mean I know anything about the artist or production.
For some reason I went on a Max Martin deep dive lol.
While 3 of the Robyn songs are co-written with him, their careers started at roughly the same time and they have had a “beef”, but mutual respect. More on that when we start the countdown
Maybe Im nerdy when it comes to songwriters. Like script writers for movies etc.
Writer/Producers like Martin take it one step further
This is only a partial list of non number one Billboard songs you may have heard of written by Max Martin. Production is an another entirely separate list.
Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games With My Heart & Everybody (Backstreets Back)
Celine Dion - That’s the Way It Is
Bon Jovi - It’s My Life
Def Leppard - Unbelievable
Kelly Clarkson - Since You’ve Been Gone
A-Ha - Analogue (All I Want)
Pink - Who Knew
Apocalyptica - I Don’t Care
Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me
Taio Cruz - Dynamite
Usher - DJ Got Us Falling in Love Again
Jessie J - Domino
Justin Bieber - Beauty and a Beat
Pitbull - Wild Wild Love
Adele - Send My Love
Zac Brown Band with Brandi Carlile - Finish What We Started
Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep?
Lady Gaga - Stupid Love
Post Malone - Enough is Enough
Pretty much anything by Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Backstreet Boys, Ariana Grande, a lot of NSYNC, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift, an album plus more with Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and Lizzo
If you appreciate Pop, he is up there with Smokey Robinson, Lennon/McCartney, Dianne Warren, Carole King/Gerry Goffin, Stevie Wonder, Holland/Dozier/Holland, Prince, Ray Davies and Bacharach/David
Some of these somgwriters are fairly anonymous in the public eye, like Diane Warren and Max Martin, but their songs define eras and artists.
Rolling Stone placed him at #41 on a greatest somgwriters list a long time ago, so an update should place him higher. They added this comment “Every pop era has at least one songwriter who effortlessly taps into the zeitgeist, and for the last roughly 15 years, that person has been this Swedish writer-producer. Starting in the Nineties with the Backstreet Boy's "I Want It That Way" and Britney Spears' "…Baby One More Time," among others, Martin helped create the whooshing, hyper-energized sound of modern pop — a talent that has extended to a mind-boggling list of recent collaborations that include Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night" and "Teenage Dream," Ariana Grande's "Problem," Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" and Adam Lambert's "Whataya Want from Me." "I try to make the songs as good as I can — the way I like it, you know?" Martin has said. "And I guess my taste sometimes happens to be what other people, particularly radio programmers, like, too. As you know, a lot of the stuff that was once considered rubbish or 'for kids' is now considered classic”
released a Christmas album last December. [/ENDSUBTLEFORESHADOWING]. 
