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Max Martin Biography

Martin Sandberg born on 26th February 1971, known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish songwriter, record producer and singer. He rose to prominence in the second half of the 1990s after making a string of major hits for artists such as the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and NSYNC.

Some of his earlier hits include “…Baby One More Time” (1998), “I Want It That Way” (1999) and “It’s My Life” (2000). According to Variety his net worth was approximately $260 million in 2017. The previous year he achieved approximately an income of $54 million and a profit of $19 million for his services.

Martin has written or co-written 22 Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits, most of which he has also produced or co-produced, including Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” (2008), Maroon 5’s “One More Night” (2012), Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” (2014), and The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face” (2015). Martin is the songwriter with the third-most number-one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney (32) and John Lennon (26). In addition, he has had the second most Hot 100 number-one singles as a producer (20), behind George Martin, who had achieved 23 by the time of his death.

In early 2013, his single sales were tallied by The Hollywood Reporter to be at over 135 million. Martin has won the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year award a record ten times.

Max Martin Wife

Martin has a partner, Jenny (née Pettersson), from Mörrum, who he met around 2000 and married in 2011. The couple have a daughter, Doris, born around 2001.

Max Martin Songs

Songs written by Max Martin

• 3 (Britney Spears song)
• 4ever (The Veronicas song)
• 22 (Taylor Swift song)
• 2002 (song)
• All You Had to Do Was Stay
• Analogue (All I Want)
• Another Lonely Night (Adam Lambert song)
• Army (Ellie Goulding song)
• Around the World (Natalie La Rose song)
• As Long as You Love Me (Backstreet Boys song)
• …Baby One More Time (song)
• Back Together (Robin Thicke song)
• Bad Blood (Taylor Swift song)
• Bang Bang (Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj song)
• Beauty and a Beat
• Behind These Hazel Eyes
• Bigger (Backstreet Boys song)
• Birthday (Katy Perry song)
• Blank Space
• Blow (Kesha song)
• Bon Appétit (song)
• Break Free (song)
• Break You
• C’Mon (Kesha song)
• California Gurls
• California Lovers
• The Call (Backstreet Boys song)
• Can’t Feel My Face
• Can’t Get Enough (Becky G song)
• Can’t Stop the Feeling!
• Carry You Home (James Blunt song)
• Chained to the Rhythm
• Cinderella (Britney Spears song)
• Climbing The Walls
• Cloud Number Nine
• Codes (Ellie Goulding song)
• Confident (Demi Lovato song)
• Cool for the Summer
• Crazy Beautiful Life
• Criminal (Britney Spears song)
• ‘Cuz I Can (Pink song)
• Dancing Crazy
• Dancing With Our Hands Tied
• Dare (La La La)
• Dark Horse (Katy Perry song)
• Daylight (Maroon 5 song)
• Delicate (Taylor Swift song)
• Dinosaur (Kesha song)
• DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love
• Do You Know (What It Takes)
• Domino (Jessie J song)
• Don’t Blame Me (Taylor Swift song)
• Don’t Cry for Pain
• Don’t Need Nobody (Ellie Goulding song)
• Dynamite (Taio Cruz song)
• EBay (song)
• Electric (Leila K song)
• End Game (song)
• End of Me (Marion Raven song)
• E.T. (song)
• Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
• Everything I’m Not
• Expensive Song (Tori Kelly song)
• Faith (Celine Dion song)
• Falling Slow
• Fast Car (Taio Cruz song)
• Feels Like Tonight
• First Love (Jennifer Lopez song)
• For All That You Want
• For Now (song)
• Friday I’ll Be Over U
• Fuckin’ Perfect
• Ghost (Katy Perry song)
• Ghost Town (Adam Lambert song)
• Gorgeous (Taylor Swift song)
• Gotta Be You (3T song)
• Greedy (Ariana Grande song)
• Greedy (song)
• Hair Up
• Hands to Myself
• Here We Go (NSYNC song)
• Hey Hey Hey
• Hold It Against Me
• Hot n Cold
• How You Get the Girl
• I Did Something Bad
• I Don’t Believe You
• I Don’t Care (Apocalyptica song)
• I Don’t Think So
• I Got You (Leona Lewis song)
• I Got You (Nick Carter song)
• I Kissed a Girl
• I Knew You Were Trouble
• I Still…
• I Wanna Go
• I Want It That Way
• I Want You Back (NSYNC song)
• I Will Be (song)
• I Will Be There (Britney Spears Song)
• I’ll Never Stop
• I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
• If I Had You (Adam Lambert song)
• If That’s OK with You
• If U Seek Amy
• In a World like This (song)
• In the Night (song)
• Inside Out (Britney Spears song)
• International Smile
• Into the Nightlife
• Into You (Ariana Grande song)
• It’s All Your Fault
• It’s Gonna Be Me
• It’s My Life (Bon Jovi song)
• It’s the Things You Do
• Just like Fire
• Just Want You to Know
• King of My Heart (Taylor Swift song)
• Kiss n Tell (Kesha song)
• Larger than Life (song)
• Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
• Legendary Lovers (Katy Perry song)
• Let There Be Love (Christina Aguilera song)
• Let U Go (Ashley Parker Angel song)
• Light Up the World (Glee song)
• Loser like Me
• Lost and Found (Ellie Goulding song)
• Love Me (Katy Perry song)
• Love Me Harder
• Love Me like You Do
• Lucky (Britney Spears song)
• Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey song)
• My Life Would Suck Without You
• Naked (James Arthur song)
• New Romantics (song)
• No Tears Left to Cry
• Nobody Love
• On My Mind (Ellie Goulding song)
• Once in a Lifetime (Flo Rida song)
• One More Night (Maroon 5 song)
• The One That Got Away (Katy Perry song)
• The One (Backstreet Boys song)
• Only Wanna Dance with You
• Oops!… I Did It Again (song)
• Outta My Head (Leona Lewis song)
• Overprotected
• Part of Me (Katy Perry song)
• Please Don’t Leave Me
• Problem (song)
• Quit Playing Games (with My Heart)
• Raise Your Glass
• …Ready for It?
• Revenge (Pink song)
• Right Type of Mood
• Rise (Katy Perry song)
• Roar (song)
• Rockin’ (song)
• Roulette (Katy Perry song)
• Scream (Usher song)
• Secrets (Pink song)
• Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
• Shake It Off
• Shape of My Heart
• Show Me Love (Robyn song)
• Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely
• Siberia (Backstreet Boys song)
• Side to Side
• Since U Been Gone
• Slam Dunk (Da Funk)
• Smile (Avril Lavigne song)
• So It Goes…
• So What (Pink song)
• Stay My Baby
• Stronger (Britney Spears song)
• Style (Taylor Swift song)
• Superhero (Gary Barlow song)
• Supernatural (Kesha song)
• Surprise (Sugababes song)
• Tearin’ Up My Heart
• Teenage Dream (Katy Perry song)
• That’s the Way It Is (Celine Dion song)
• This Is How We Do
• This Is Love (will.i.am song)
• Till the World Ends
• Tonight I’m Getting Over You
• U + Ur Hand
• Unconditionally
• Under You (song)
• Until the Time Is Through
• Up n’ Down (Britney Spears song)
• Va Va Voom
• Walking on Air (Katy Perry song)
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
• We’ve Got It Goin’ On
• What the Hell
• What U Workin’ With?
• Whataya Want from Me
• Whatever You Want (Pink song)
• When You’re Looking Like That
• Who Knew
• Wide Awake (song)

Max Martin Studio

Max Martin Studio

Max Martin Taylor Swift

Martin produced and co-wrote the Billboard Hot 100 number 1 hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (2012), on Taylor Swift’s fourth album Red (2012), which became her first number-one single in the US. Upon its release, the song reached the top position on the iTunes singles chart in 50 minutes, hence breaking the previous record held by Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way” with a record of an hour, making “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” the fastest selling single in digital history at that time.

Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” set the record for the biggest digital sales week (623,000) ever for a song by a female artist, surpassing the record held by Kesha’s “Tik Tok” (2009). It also reached the top of the iTunes single chart in 32 countries. He also co-wrote and produced two other singles on the album: “I Knew You Were Trouble” (2012), which peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and also “22” (2013).

Martin produced and co-wrote the first three singles on Swift’s fifth studio album 1989 (2014): “Shake It Off” (2014), “Blank Space” (2014), and “Style” (2015). “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space” hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with the former debuting at the top spot; “Style” peaked at number 6. Martin was both a co-writer and co-producer for Swift’s “Bad Blood” which in a remixed form reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week dated 6 June 2015.

Martin also contributed to multiple other songs off of 1989 such as “Wildest Dreams”, “All You Had to Do Was Stay”, “How You Get the Girl” and two of the bonus tracks on the international, USA and Canada Target deluxe edition of the album: “New Romantics” and “Wonderland”. He produced Swift’s vocals on the albums and co-wrote all his tracks with Swift and Shellback apart from “All You Had to Do Was Stay”.

On Swift’s sixth studio album Reputation, Martin co-wrote and co-produced nine songs, including singles “…Ready for It?” and “Gorgeous”.

Max Martin Hits (Max Martin Song List)

• “…Baby One More Time”
• “It’s Gonna Be Me”
• “I Kissed a Girl”
• “So What”
• “My Life Would Suck Without You”
• “3”
• “Raise Your Glass”
• “California Gurls”
• “Teenage Dream”
• “Hold It Against Me”
• “E.T.”
• “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”
• “Part of Me”
• “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
• “One More Night”
• “Roar”
• “Dark Horse”
• “Shake It Off”
• “Blank Space”
• “Bad Blood”
• “Can’t Feel My Face”
• “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”
• Other Top 10 hits
• “Quit
• Playing Games (With My Heart)” (#2)
• “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” (#4)
• “Do You Know (What It Takes)” (#7)
• “Show Me Love” (#7)
• “I Want It That Way” (#6)
• “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely” (#6)
• “(You Drive Me) Crazy” (#10)
• “That’s the Way It Is” (#6)
• “Shape of My Heart” (#9)
• “Oops!… I Did It Again” (#9)
• “Since U Been Gone” (#2)
• “Behind These Hazel Eyes” (#6)
• “Who Knew” (#9)
• “U + Ur Hand” (#9)
• “Hot n Cold” (#3)
• “Whataya Want from Me” (#10)
• “Blow” (#7)
• “Dynamite” (#2)
• “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love” (#4)
• “Fuckin’ Perfect” (#2)
• “Loser Like Me” (#6)
• “Till the World Ends” (#3)
• “I Wanna Go” (#7)”The One That Got Away” (#3)
• “Domino” (#6)
• “Wide Awake” (#2)
• “Scream” (#9)
• “I Knew You Were Trouble” (#2)
• “Beauty and a Beat” (#5)
• “Daylight” (#7)
• “Problem” (#2)
• “Bang Bang” (#3)
• “Break Free” (#4)
• “Love Me Harder” (#7)
• “Love Me Like You Do” (#3)
• “Style” (#6)
• “Wildest Dreams” (#5)
• “Focus” (#7)
• “Hands to Myself” (#7)
• “Dangerous Woman” (#8)
• “Just Like Fire” (#10)
• “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” (#8)
• “Side to Side” (#4)
• “Chained to the Rhythm” (#4)
• “…Ready for It?” (#4)
• “No Tears Left to Cry” (#3)

Max Martin House

Max Martin House
Max Martin House

Max Martin Beautiful Day (Max Martin Youtube)

Max Martin Shellback

Shellback is a Swedish songwriter, record producer, and musician. He regularly collaborates with songwriter Max Martin, and together they have produced, written, and/or co-written songs for P!nk, Taylor Swift, Adam Lambert, Britney Spears, Usher, Avril Lavigne, Ariana Grande, Adele, and Maroon 5. Shellback has also collaborated with fellow producer Benny Blanco. He has also produced songs by himself, including “Want U Back” by Cher Lloyd and “Animals” by Maroon 5.

Max Martin Dr Luke

Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald born on September 26, 1973, known professionally as Dr. Luke, is an American record producer, songwriter and singer. His professional music career began in the late night television sketch comedy Saturday Night Live as its house band’s lead guitarist in 1997 and producing remixes for artists such as Bon Jovi and Gravediggaz. He came into music prominence in 2004 for producing Kelly Clarkson’s single “Since U Been Gone” with Swedish record producer Max Martin.

Gottwald continued to co-write and produce commercially successful records such as “Who Knew” (2006) for Pink, “Girlfriend” (2007) for Avril Lavigne, and “I Kissed a Girl” (2008) for Katy Perry, before leaving Saturday Night Live and reuniting with Clarkson for “My Life Would Suck Without You” (2009). Gottwald has also worked Taio Cruz, B.o.B, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, T.I., Flo Rida, Miley Cyrus, Jessie J, Juicy J, Ne-Yo, Shakira and Pitbull. He is also noted for signing recording artists such as Kesha and Sabi.

Gottwald’s work has been recognized with various music industry awards. Billboard named him one of the top performing producers of the 2000s. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded him Producer and Songwriter of the Year honors from 2009 to 2011. At the 53rd Grammy Awards, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, and Perry’s Teenage Dream was nominated for Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

In October 2014, Kesha initiated a series of lawsuits, alleging sexual assault and abuse by Gottwald.

Max Martin Net Worth

Max has a net worth of $250 million. He has written a number of hit songs for pop artists, such as Backstreet Boys, Ace of Base, N Sync, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Taylor Swift, and Robyn.

Max Martin Interview

Max Martin Katy Perry

Max Martin is also responsible for some of the songs of Katy Perry on four albums. On her debut album One of the Boys (2008) including the number-one single “I Kissed a Girl”, and top 5 hit single “Hot n Cold”, and following-up album Teenage Dream (2010), including the Billboard Hot 100 numbers-ones hits singles “California Gurls” (2010), “Teenage Dream” (2010), “E.T.” (2011), “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” (2011) and the Hot 100 top ten hit “The One That Got Away” (2011). Martin also co-wrote the songs “Part of Me” (2012) and “Wide Awake” (2012), the former of which topped the Billboard Hot 100. For her third album Prism (2013), he co-wrote the No. 1 singles “Roar” (2013) and “Dark Horse” (2013). On her fourth album Witness (2017), Martin co-wrote numerous songs, including the lead single Chained to the Rhythm which peaked at number 4.

Max Martin Photos

Max Martin
Max Martin

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