Max Martin

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Karl Martin Sandberg (born 26 February 1971), known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish record producer and songwriter. He rose to prominence in the late 1990s with songwriting credits on a string of hit singles, such as Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time" (1998), the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" (1999), Celine Dion's "That's the Way It Is" (1999), and NSYNC's "It's Gonna Be Me" (2000). Martin has written or co-written 31 Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles; 29 of which he has produced or co-produced, an all-time record for the chart as of June 2026. His credits include Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" (2008) and "Roar" (2013), Maroon 5's "One More Night" (2012), Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off", "Blank Space" (2014) and "The Fate of Ophelia" (2025), Ariana Grande's "Yes, And?", "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" (2024) and "Hate That I Made You Love Me" (2026), Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber's "I Don't Care" (2019) and The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" (2019) and...

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