Here Are All of Max Martin’s Record-Setting Hot 100 No. 1s as a Producer

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In 2024, Max Martin passed George Martin, of Beatles lore, for the most.

10/15/2025

Max Martin boasts the astir No. 1s among producers successful the past of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

The Swedish producer-songwriter tallied his 26th vocation person arsenic a shaper connected the Oct. 18, 2025-dated Hot 100, arsenic Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” blasted successful astatine No. 1. In January 2024, via Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And?,” helium earned his 24th No. 1, surpassing the precocious George Martin — who produced 19 of The Beatles’ grounds 20 No. 1s — for the astir among producers implicit the chart’s archives.

Max Martin has besides earned 28 Hot 100 No. 1s arsenic writer, done the coronation of “The Fate of Ophelia,” the second-most aft Paul McCartney, with 32.

Max Martin archetypal dominated the Hot 100 some arsenic a shaper and writer erstwhile Britney Spears’ debut smash “…Baby One More Time” deed No. 1 connected the Jan. 30, 1999-dated chart. He initially reached the ranking successful some roles connected the illustration dated Oct. 28, 1995, erstwhile Backstreet Boys’ “We’ve Got It Goin’ On” debuted astatine No. 97. He notched his archetypal 2 apical 10s simultaneously connected the July 12, 1997, chart, erstwhile Robyn’s “Do You Know (What It Takes)” and Backstreet Boys’ “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” roseate to Nos. 9 and 10, respectively.

Among his triumphs, Max Martin cowrote and coproduced the No. 1 hit connected the Hot 100’s Greatest of All Time Songs retrospective: The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.”

For the prima Swedish endowment (born Karl Martin Sandberg), “What’s truthful awesome is that he’s ever successful tune with the times, which has enabled him to enactment applicable each these years,” Dave Penn, cofounder of Hit Songs Deconstructed, which provides in-depth investigation of Hot 100 apical 10 hits, told Billboard successful 2021. “A decennary ago, helium was opting for much clubby creation beats and EDM-styled synths. But toward the extremity of the 2010s, helium had embraced hip-hop and started including trap beats successful songs.

“But portion helium has adjusted definite aspects of his penning and producing benignant implicit the years,” Penn mused, “what’s absorbing is that galore things person remained fundamentally the same. Melody reigns ultimate erstwhile it comes to mainstream hits, and Max Martin is inactive the undisputed champion of popular melody. As the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t hole it.”

Here’s a rundown of Max Martin’s unprecedented 26 Hot 100 No. 1s arsenic a producer.