Max Martin is a name you’ve probably never heard of, but his resumé reads like a Top 50 pop chart of the late 90s and a Top 10 of recent years. Here are some of the highlights, are there any you don’t recognize??

  • Backstreet Boys – As Long As You Love Me
  • Backstreet Boys – Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
  • Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way
  • Backstreet Boys – Quit Playing Games With My Heart
  • Backstreet Boys – Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely
  • Backstreet Boys – Shape of My Heart
  • Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time
  • Britney Spears – (You Drive Me) Crazy
  • Britney Spears – If U Seek Amy
  • Britney Spears – I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
  • Britney Spears – Lucky
  • Britney Spears – Oops!…I Did It Again
  • Britney Spears – Stronger
  • Britney Spears – 3
  • N’Sync – I Want You Back
  • N’Sync – It’s Gonna Be Me
  • N’Sync – Tearin’ Up My Heart
  • Kelly Clarkson – Behind These Hazel Eyes
  • Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You
  • Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone
  • Pink – Please Don’t Leave Me
  • Pink – So What
  • Pink – U+Ur Hand
  • Katy Perry – Hot N Cold
  • Katy Perry – I Kissed A Girl
  • Ace of Base – Beautiful Life
  • Ace of Base – Lucky Love
  • Ace of Base – Never Gonna Say I’m Sorry
  • Robyn – Do You Know (What it Takes)
  • Robyn – Show Me Love
  • Cyndi Lauper – Into The Nightlife

If not the King, he is at least the puppeteer.