Max Martin
Max Martin | |
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Born | Karl Martin Sandberg 26 February 1971 Stockholm, Sweden |
Other names | Martin White |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1985–present |
Spouse |
Jenny Petersson (m. 2011) |
Children | 1 |
Awards | Full list |
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Formerly of | |
Karl Martin Sandberg (Swedish: " (2000).
Martin has written or co-written 27 Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles; 25 of which he has produced or co-produced, an all-time record for the chart as of March 2024. 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" and "Blank Space" (2014), and the Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" (2019) and "Save Your Tears" (2020). "Blinding Lights" is the best performing song of all time according to the chart.[3][4] Martin has written the second-most number-one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney (32), having surpassed John Lennon (26) with his 27th number one in March 2024.[5][6][7] Many of Martin's hits were used in the 2019 jukebox musical & Juliet.
In early 2019, his single sales were tallied by The Hollywood Reporter to be at over $135 million.[8] According to Variety, his net worth was approximately $260 million in 2017; the previous year, his corporate entity generated revenue of $54 million with a profit of $19 million.[9] Martin has won the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year award for a record of 11 times.[10][11][12] He has also won five Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year, and nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
Life and career
Early career and It's Alive
Sandberg was born and grew up in Stenhamra, Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County. His mother was a middle school teacher and his father was a police officer.[13] As a child, Martin was a student of Sweden's public music-education scheme, and once said he had "public music education to thank for everything".[14]
As a teenager he sang in a variety of bands before joining a
The decision to focus on a music career paid off as they landed a record deal on producer Denniz PoP's label Cheiron Records, a BMG affiliate. After recording their second album Earthquake Visions, they released three singles in conjunction with the record and toured through Europe in 1994 supporting Kingdom Come. Earthquake Visions eventually sold a disappointing 30,000 copies, despite being released in as many as 30 countries. More importantly though, Martin also began collaborating on songs with Denniz Pop. Recognizing a talent for writing pop songs in the young rocker, Denniz Pop renamed his new protégé Max Martin and eventually became Martin's mentor.[16]
Working with Cheiron and Denniz PoP
I didn't even know what a producer did, I spent two years–day and night–in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.
—Max Martin, 19 March 2001.[17]
In 1993, Martin was hired by Cheiron Studios and spent some time learning the basics, before the first production collaboration between PoP and Martin: the Rednex song "Wish You Were Here" in 1994. When Martin produced the intro to E-Types song "This Is the Way" E-Type and PoP credited it to the made up producer alias "Max Martin", thus inventing his artist name. Martin was informed after-the-fact, when the printed records came back.[18] They both worked on Ace of Base's second album, The Bridge (1995), shortly thereafter, as well as on albums by 3T, Army of Lovers[19] and Leila K.[20] To date, The Bridge has sold more than six million copies worldwide, including one million in the United States.[21] When Martin eventually left his band It's Alive in late 1995, he was replaced by Anders Hansson.
In 1995, Cheiron Studios was hired by
In 1998,
In late 1999,
Martin, Andreas Carlsson, and Rami Yacoub wrote
Backstreet Boys
Martin wrote, co-wrote, and co-produced 7 out of the 12 songs on the Backstreet Boys' third album Millennium (1999), including all the singles.[23] "I Want It That Way", a hit song Martin co-wrote with Andreas Carlsson and co-produced with Kristian Lundin, became the group's biggest single to date and it is still popular today, being voted No. 10 in the MTV/Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs".[24][25] 100 Greatest Songs of the '90s, a VH1 special, ranked the song at number 3, making it the highest ranked boy-band single and pop song.[26] Millennium sold over 1.1 million units in its first week in the United States, setting a record for most albums sold in its debut week (that record was later beaten by NSYNC's 2000 album No Strings Attached), and was the best-selling album in the world.[27][28]
When working on her own solo album, to be released in 2001 on
Britney Spears
[Martin] gets exactly what I am saying when I tell him what I want and don't want musically. His melodies are incredible and he is always coming up with weird sounds, which I love... There is nobody I feel more comfortable collaborating with in the studio
Spears on working with Martin[32]
In 1998, Martin wrote and co-produced
Martin worked on Spears's follow-up records Oops!... I Did It Again (2000) and Britney (2001). He co-wrote and co-produced the singles "Oops!... I Did It Again" (2000), "Lucky" (2000), "Stronger" (2000), "Overprotected" (2001), and "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" (2002). The duo ended up parting ways when Spears distanced herself from teen pop. Spears recorded In the Zone (2003) and Blackout (2007). At the request of Spears, Martin produced and wrote for Spears' sixth studio album Circus (2008). 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. Martin then produced the number one hit, "3", for Spears' compilation album The Singles Collection (2009).
Martin was one of the executive producers of Spears's seventh album, Femme Fatale (2011). He produced several songs for the album, including the successful singles "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends", "I Wanna Go", and "Criminal".[37][38]
Startup of Maratone
Following the death of
In 2004,
In 2005, Martin collaborated with the Norwegian singer Marion Raven for the release of her debut album, titled Here I Am, writing and co-writing the songs "Break You", "End of Me", "Here I Am", "Little By Little", "In Spite of Me", and "Six Feet Under".
Pink
Martin co-wrote and produced three songs on
Usher
In 2010, Martin co-wrote and co-produced
Avril Lavigne
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 (2007). Martin also worked on four songs for Lavigne's fourth studio album Goodbye Lullaby (2011): the three singles "What the Hell" (2011), "Smile" (2011), and "Wish You Were Here" (2011), and the album track "I Love You".
Jessie J
Max Martin first worked with Jessie J on her international hit "Domino",[41] which achieved top ten success in countries including Canada and Australia. Following the success of "Domino", Martin co-produced "Bang Bang" (2014) for Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj.
Katy Perry
Max Martin is also responsible for some of the songs of
Christina Aguilera
Confirmed by RCA Executives on 18 December 2011, Martin worked on Christina Aguilera's seventh studio album Lotus (2012) and was the producer of her lead single, "Your Body" (2012), as well as another song titled "Let There Be Love". Both songs reached the top of the Billboard dance/club chart.
Taylor Swift
Martin has collaborated with Taylor Swift on three of her albums. Their first collaboration was the Billboard Hot 100 number 1 hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (2012) for her album Red (2012). Martin also co-wrote and co-produced two other singles on the album: "I Knew You Were Trouble" (2012), which peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "22" (2013).
Martin also contributed to her follow-up record, 1989 (2014). He co-wrote and co-produced ten songs, including the singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood", "Wildest Dreams", "Style", and "New Romantics".[42] The former three songs reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.[43] Martin later worked with Swift on Reputation (2017), co-writing and co-producing eight songs, including the singles "...Ready for It?", "End Game", and "Delicate". Swift released her re-recorded albums Red (Taylor's Version) (2021) and 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023), which Martin co-produced multiple songs from these albums in 2012 and 2014. He didn't handle the production of the re-recorded songs. He co-wrote a song called "Message in a Bottle", one of the newly added "From the Vault" tracks from Red (Taylor's Version).
Ariana Grande
Martin first worked with
Grande released her lead single "Yes, And?" from her seventh studio album Eternal Sunshine on January 12, 2024. She wrote and produced the song with Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh. Martin also co-wrote and co-produced 10 other tracks from the album, including "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)".
The Weeknd
Martin co-wrote and produced three songs from
Martin also co-wrote and assisted in the production of "Take My Breath", released in August 2021. He also produced or co produced the majority of the songs on the Weeknd's fifth studio album Dawn FM (2022).
Coldplay
Martin appeared as a keyboardist on two singles from Coldplay's eighth studio album Everyday Life (2019): "Orphans" and "Champion of the World". In June 2021, Coldplay announced their ninth studio album Music of the Spheres (2021), with Martin serving as the album's producer.[45] The album received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, debuting at the top of the UK Albums Chart and becoming the album with most sales in a week in the United Kingdom since Ed Sheeran's No.6 Collaborations Project (2019).[46]
Music of the Spheres (2021) included songs such as "Higher Power", "Let Somebody Go", which Selena Gomez appears on, and "My Universe", which BTS appears on. "My Universe" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Martin his twenty fifth number one as a writer and twenty third number one as a producer on the chart.[47] With that song, he tied with George Martin for producer with most Billboard Hot 100 number ones. (He would later pass Martin. [48])
Others
Martin co-wrote "It's My Life" with fellow Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora. It was released on 8 May 2000 as the lead single from Bon Jovi's seventh studio album, Crush (2000). The song was certified 2× platinum in the United States; platinum in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; and gold in France, Japan, and the Netherlands.[49]
Fourth runner-up of the eighth season of
Martin also 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.
Martin also produced several albums for Eurodance act E-type.
In 2005, Max Martin wrote the first single-song for
In January 2014, Martin produced a two-minute advertisement entitled "Volvo XC70: Made By Sweden",[52] featuring soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimović. The video of the advertisement received several million views on YouTube.
2008 saw him collaborate with Daughtry for one of their singles from their 2006 debut album Daughtry: the song "Feels Like Tonight" written with Dr. Luke.
In early 2014, Martin co-wrote the song "Dare (La La La)" for Shakira's self-titled album.
In April–May 2014, Martin produced
Between 2014 and 2015, Martin executive-produced "Ghost Town" by Adam Lambert.
In January 2015, he co-wrote and co-produced Ellie Goulding's "Love Me like You Do", which reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100,[53] while also producing several songs from her album Delirium including the hit single "On My Mind", which was released on 17 September 2015.
In July 2015, Martin produced Demi Lovato's song "Cool for the Summer" which reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. He also contributed to "Confident" and "For You" from their fifth studio album Confident.
Martin also 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.
In November 2015, Adele's album 25 was released and Martin co-wrote and co-produced the record's third single "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" with Shellback; it would eventually become a top 10 hit in the US and the UK.
2016 saw Martin being heavily involved in the making of Ariana Grande's third album,
In 2016, he co-wrote the song "Can't Stop the Feeling!" by Justin Timberlake which is also the title song for the film Trolls with Shellback. The song became Timberlake's fifth and Martin's twenty-second number-one hit in the US.[54] It reached the top spot in 16 other countries. The song gave Timberlake and Martin their first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
In 2019, Martin co-produced and co-wrote Ed Sheeran's and Justin Bieber's hit single "I Don't Care".[55]
In 2020, Martin co-produced and co-wrote "Stupid Love", the first single from Lady Gaga's sixth studio album, Chromatica. This marks the first time the two have worked together.[56]
In 2021, Martin co-wrote and co-produced "Can I Get It" by Adele from her fourth studio album, 30.
In 2022, Martin co-produced and co-wrote Måneskin's single "Supermodel".[57] He also co-produced and co-wrote Lizzo's song "2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)", from her fourth studio album, Special.[58]
In 2023, Martin co-wrote and co-produced
Artistry
Influences
When accepting the Polar Music Prize, Martin highlighted ABBA, Kiss, Prince and Lasse Holm as inspirations.[59]
Creative process
The traditional division of work in the record industry often has the artist or songwriter writing the songs and then hiring a producer to help shape the sound. But at Cheiron, it was the other way around; the producers wrote the songs, played the instruments, and engineered and mixed the recordings, and the artist was only brought in near the end of the process to do the vocals. For example, on Britney Spears's second album Oops!… I Did It Again (2000), Cheiron had already written seven songs and had proceeded to record the layers of music before Britney even arrived at the studios in early November 1999. It took her only one week to do the vocals. Martin and his team worked more like a band that alternated singers. Martin explained his working method:
I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten, I want nothing missed. I'm a perfectionist. The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like–all of it, the why, when and how.[60] – LA Times, 6/05/00
Impact and legacy
Martin's influence on the music field is also seen in the effect he has had on co-producers. The music site Stereogum singles out three people as his "disciples", Savan Kotecha, Dr. Luke, and Shellback.[61] Time magazine reported that "There's a cluster of high-powered songwriters who are based in Sweden, and the grandmaster is Max Martin and that when Kotecha worked with One Direction he credited Martin's influence 'We work melody first. That's Max Martin's school. We'll spend days, sometimes weeks, challenging the melody. The goal is to make it sound like anyone can do this, but it's actually very difficult. In Sweden, you don't do anything until you do it right.'"[62] The New Yorker reported that Martin was Dr. Luke's "Swedish mentor and frequent collaborator. If Luke is the Skywalker of pop songcraft, Max is the Obi-Wan: the reclusive master. ...The vital spark in the musical emergence of Dr. Luke was meeting Max Martin".[63] Dr. Luke himself says of the chemistry between him and Martin "'It happened really fast. It was magical. …[Martin taught me that] Instead of making tracks for five thousand people, why not make tracks for a million?'"[63] The magazine for Sweden's collection society STIM reported that Shellback became an "apprentice" with Martin acting as "his mentor" at Maratone Studios after 2006 when "Max Martin saw something special in the young man from Karlshamn. Judging by the incredible success Shellback has had since, Martin's A&R skills are some of the best in the music business".[64]
Martin's song catalog was used in the stage musical & Juliet, which opened on the West End in 2019.[65][66]
Personal life
Martin met his wife, Jenny (née Petersson) from Mörrum, around 2000 and they married in 2011.[67] The couple have a daughter, born around 2001.[68][69]
Martin lives in Los Angeles and in Stockholm.
Songwriting and production
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
Since 1998, Martin has written or co-written 27
- 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
- 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
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2017 | "Can't Stop the Feeling!" | Best Original Song | Nominated |
ASCAP Pop Music Awards
Year | Award | Result |
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1999 | Songwriter of the Year | Won |
2000 | Won | |
2001 | Won | |
2011 | Won | |
2012 | Won | |
2013 | Won | |
2014 | Won | |
2015 | Won | |
2016 | Won | |
2017 | Won | |
2018 | Won |
Golden Globe Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2016 | " Love Me Like You Do "
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Best Original Song | Nominated |
2017 | "Can't Stop the Feeling!" | Nominated |
Grammy Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | "I Want It That Way" | Record of the Year | Nominated | [71] |
Song of the Year | Nominated | |||
Millennium | Album of the Year | Nominated | ||
2011 | Teenage Dream | Nominated | ||
2013 | "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" | Record of the Year | Nominated | |
2014 | Red | Album of the Year | Nominated | |
"Roar" | Song of the Year | Nominated | ||
2015 | "Shake It Off" | Record of the Year | Nominated | |
Song of the Year | Nominated | |||
Self | Producer of the Year, Non-Classical | Won | ||
2016 | "Can't Feel My Face" | Record of the Year | Nominated | |
"Blank Space" | Nominated | |||
Song of the Year | Nominated | |||
Beauty Behind the Madness | Album of the Year | Nominated | ||
1989
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Won | |||
Best Pop Vocal Album | Won | |||
"Love Me like You Do" | Best Song Written for Visual Media | Nominated | ||
2017 | "Can't Stop the Feeling!" | Won | ||
" Just like Fire "
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Nominated | |||
25 | Album of the Year | Won | ||
Self | Producer of the Year, Non-Classical | Nominated | ||
2020 | Thank U, Next | Album of the Year | Nominated | |
2023 | 30 | Nominated | ||
Special | Nominated | |||
Music of the Spheres | Nominated |
Polar Music Prize
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2016 | Self | Polar Music Prize | Honoree |
Primetime Emmy Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | "So Long, Farewell / Song Title: A Beautiful Game" (from Ted Lasso) | Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics | Won | [72] |
Tony Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2023 | & Juliet | Best Musical | Nominated |
Miscellaneous awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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1996 | Denniz PoP & Max Martin
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Swedish Dance Music Awards 1996 – Best Producers | Won |
1997 | Denniz PoP & Max Martin
|
Grammis Awards – Special Jury Prize | Won |
2010 | Max Martin | STIM Platinum Guitar | Won |
2016 | Max Martin | Polar Music Prize | Won |
See also
- Swedish pop music
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