Composer
Max Martin
Swedish record producer and songwriter (born 1971)
b. 1971
59 works in the index
- Born
- 1971
- Birthplace
- Sånga församling
- Citizenship / historical state
- Sweden
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
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 30 Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles; 28 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 "Save Your Tears" (2020). "Blinding Lights" is the best performing song of all time according to the chart. 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. Many of Martin's hits were used in the 2019 jukebox musical & Juliet.
In early 2013, The Hollywood Reporter tallied his singles sales at over 135 million copies. 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. Martin has won the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year award a record 11 times. He has also won five Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year, and nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- composer; songwriter; record producer
- Education
- Södra Latin
- Genres
- pop music; dance music; contemporary R&B; rock music; dance-pop; pop rock
- Awards
- Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical; Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song; Polar Music Prize; International Swede of the Year; Swedish Music Hall of Fame; H. M. The King's Medal; Stimgitarren Platina; Musikexportpriset
- Birth name
- Karl Martin Sandberg
- Pseudonym
- Max Martin
- Native languages
- Swedish
- VIAF ID
- 100988546
- ISNI
- 0000000114535573
- GND ID
- 135406684
- Library of Congress ID
- n2009059833
- MusicBrainz ID
- 6622a50e-5206-44d0-9ad5-96047a726dcf
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Vocal, Voice, Guitar
- Genres represented
- pop, Rock, Pop
- Works with composition dates
- 0 of 59
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Works page 2 of 2
Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.
| Work | Year composed | Catalogue / opus | Key in title | Listed instruments | Genre | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Still... | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| Siberia | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| U & UR Hand | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| I Wanna Go | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| We Are Never Getting Back Together | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| Beauty And A Beat | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| I Knew You Were Trouble | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| Daylight | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| Roar | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| Dynamite, full score | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| Shake It Off | — | — | — | — | Pop | 1 |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 100988546. Portrait: Näringsdepartementet Archived source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160529000221/https://www.flickr.com/photos/52684925@N08/16685800588, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.