In addition, he is tied with George Martin for the most Hot 100 number-one songs as a producer, with 23 as of 2021. Martin is the songwriter with the third-most number-one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney (32) and John Lennon (26).

Martin has written or co-written 25 Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs, most of which he has also produced or co-produced, including 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). Baby One More Time' (1998), the Backstreet Boys' ' I Want It That Way' (1999), Céline Dion's ' That's the Way It Is' (1999) and NSYNC's ' It's Gonna Be Me' (2000). He rose to prominence in the late 1990s making a string of hit singles such as Britney Spears's '. Karl Martin Sandberg ( Swedish: born 26 February 1971), known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish record producer and songwriter.

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