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TIL that Max Martin is the songwriter with the third-most number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, behind only Paul McCartney (32) and John Lennon (26). He has won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Songwriter of the Year award a record eleven times.

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