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Max Martin first hit the Billboard Hot 100 dated Oct. 28, 1995, as cowriter of Backstreet Boys\u2019 first hit, \u201cWe\u2019ve Got It Goin\u2019 On,\u201d a foretelling title for both the boy band and Martin.<\/p>\n

The group would go on to massive success, and Martin, too. The Swedish songwriter and producer\u2019s history includes an astounding 28 No. 1 hits as a writer on the Hot 100, a run that began in January 1999 with Britney Spears\u2019 debut smash, \u201c\u2026Baby One More Time\u201d (a title that would also prove prophetic). Among his other triumphs, he cowrote and coproduced the No. 1 hit on the Hot 100\u2019s Greatest of All Time Songs retrospective, as announced in 2021: The Weeknd\u2019s \u201cBlinding Lights.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Martin first reached the Hot 100 as a writer, Taylor Swift was 5 years old. In 2012, their cowrite, also with Shellback, \u201cWe Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,\u201d became her first leader on the list. As of October 2026, the trio has landed seven No. 1 compositions, through Swift\u2019s \u201cPatient Zero,\u201d her 16th chart-topping song overall. The three worked on all of her 2025 LP The Life of a Showgir<\/em>l during her The Eras Tour. \u201cWhen I was on tour in Stockholm, I had Max Martin come out to the show, and I was talking to him, and I was like, \u2018I just feel like we could knock it out of the park if we went back in,\u2019\u201d she shared on Instagram upon announcing the album.<\/p>\n

\u201cI essentially said to him, \u2018I want to be as proud of it as an album as I am of The Eras Tour,\u2019\u201d Swift mused. \u201cAnd he was like, \u2018Do you understand what kind of pressure that is?\u2019 I know the pressure I\u2019m putting on this record by saying that, but I don\u2019t care because I love it that much. It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Britney Spears to Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and more pop stars in between, browse the gallery below of Max Martin\u2019s catalog of melodic Hot 100 No. 1 hits that he\u2019s achieved as a songwriter.<\/p>\n