Max Martin Rankdown - The Ultimate Pop War [completed]

[ry4n]

Welcome to this epic rankdown!

This is a rankdown of songs written and/or produced by Max Martin. As long as his name is in a song's credits, it qualifies. Even if he's just one of 8 writers. Obviously I'm limiting this to singles only. Max Martin has been churning out pop hits for 20 years now. This dude is responsible for:

22 Hot 100 number ones
67 Hot 100 top 10's
15 UK number ones
74? UK top 10's
38 CHR number ones
81 CHR top 10's

The list contains 125 songs. I know this is beyond the standard max of 100, but I wanted to include all notable hits (in the US and WW) as well as have a variety of artists. I imagine most people already know most of these songs anyway. I've cut down on the "big 6" a little bit by excluding "Rise", "Bon Apetit", "Criminal", "New Romantics", BSB's "Just Want You To Know" and P!nk's "I Don't Believe You", all of which performed well enough somewhere to be included. Ok maybe not "Bon Apetite".

118?/125 of these songs have gone top 20 on either the Hot 100, UK, CHR, Australia or Germany (or Alternative in the case of Apocolyptica).

The rules are simple:
- Rank the following songs from your favourite (#1) to your least favourite (#125)
- Submit your list to me, ry4n
- The deadline is more of a suggestion because it'll inevitably be pushed back like every other rankdown
- I won't be using an inverse point system. Instead I will be using an exponential function (that I haven't decided on yet), which will create bigger gaps at the higher end and smaller gaps at the lower end.


THE LIST

*NSYNC – I Want You Back
*NSYNC – It's Gonna Be Me
*NSYNC – Tearin' Up My Heart
Ace Of Base – Beautiful Life
Ace Of Base – Lucky Love
Adam Lambert – Ghost Town
Adam Lambert – If I Had You
Adam Lambert – Whataya Want From Me
Adele – Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
Apocalyptica feat. Adam Gontier – I Don't Care
Ariana Grande – Dangerous Woman
Ariana Grande – Focus
Ariana Grande – Into You
Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea – Problem
Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj – Side To Side
Ariana Grande feat. The Weeknd – Love Me Harder
Ariana Grande feat. Zedd – Break Free
Ashley Parker Angel – Let U Go
Avril Lavigne – Smile
Avril Lavigne – What The Hell
Avril Lavigne – Wish You Were Here
Backstreet Boys – As Long As You Love Me
Backstreet Boys – Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way
Backstreet Boys – Larger Than Life
Backstreet Boys – Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
Backstreet Boys – Shape Of My Heart
Backstreet Boys – Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
Backstreet Boys – The Call
Backstreet Boys – The One
Backstreet Boys – We've Got It Goin' On
Bon Jovi – It's My Life
Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears – (You Drive Me) Crazy [The Stop! Remix]
Britney Spears – 3
Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me
Britney Spears – I Wanna Go
Britney Spears – I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
Britney Spears – If U Seek Amy
Britney Spears – Lucky
Britney Spears – Oops!... I Did It Again
Britney Spears – Overprotected
Britney Spears – Stronger
Britney Spears – Till The World Ends
Bryan Adams – Club Number Nine
Carly Rae Jepsen – Tonight I'm Getting Over You
Celine Dion – That's The Way It Is
Cher Lloyd feat. Mike Posner – With Ur Love
Christina Aguilera – Your Body
Daughtry – Feels Like Tonight
Demi Lovato – Confident
Demi Lovato – Cool For The Summer
Ellie Goulding – Army
Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
Ellie Goulding – On My Mind
Five – Slam Dunk (Da Funk)
Five – Until The Time Is Through
Gavin DeGraw – In Love With A Girl
Glee Cast – Loser Like Me
Jennifer Lopez – First Love
Jessie J – Domino
Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj – Bang Bang
Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj – Beauty And A Beat
Justin Timberlake – Can't Stop The Feeling!
Katy Perry – Birthday
Katy Perry – Hot N Cold
Katy Perry – I Kissed A Girl
Katy Perry – Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
Katy Perry – Part Of Me
Katy Perry – Roar
Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
Katy Perry – The One That Got Away
Katy Perry – This Is How We Do
Katy Perry – Unconditionally
Katy Perry – Wide Awake
Katy Perry feat. Juicy J – Dark Horse
Katy Perry feat. Kanye West – E.T.
Katy Perry feat. Skip Marley – Chained To The Rhythm
Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg – California Girls
Kelly Clarkson – Behind These Hazel Eyes
Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You
Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone
Kesha – Blow
Kesha – C'mon
Lana Del Rey feat. The Weeknd – Lust For Life
Leona Lewis – I Got You
Leona Lewis – I Will Be
Maroon 5 – Daylight
Maroon 5 – One More Night
Miranda Cosgrove – Dancing Crazy
Natalie La Rose feat. Fetty Wap – Around The World
Nicki Minaj – Va Va Voom
P!nk – F**kin' Perfect
P!nk – Just Like Fire
P!nk – Please Don't Leave Me
P!nk – Raise Your Glass
P!nk – So What
P!nk – U + Ur Hand
P!nk – Who Knew
Pitbull feat. G.R.L. – Wild Wild Love
Rednex – Wish You Were Here
Robin Thicke feat. Nicki Minaj – Back Together
Robyn – Do You Know (What It Takes)
Robyn – Show Me Love
Selena Gomez – Hands To Myself
Shakira – Dare (La La La)
T.I. feat. Eminem – That's All She Wrote
Taio Cruz – Dynamite
Taylor Swift – ...Ready For It?
Taylor Swift – 22
Taylor Swift – Blank Space
Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble
Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
Taylor Swift – Style
Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams
Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar – Bad Blood
The Veronicas – 4ever
The Veronicas – Everything I'm Not
The Weeknd – Can't Feel My Face
The Weeknd – In The Night
Tori Kelly – Nobody Love
Usher – Scream
Usher feat. Pitbull – DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love
will.i.am feat. Eva Simons – This Is Love




Wikipedia list:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin_production_discography

Spotify Playlist (which includes more than the 125 listed)



Let U Go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuSm849Eep8
Rednex's WYWH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Z8moELLLA

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[willapted33]

I'll probably do this since I know like every song

[Az Paynter]

#TeamVeronicas

[crazyb]

I'll definitely do this. Gonna take some time though lol

[Blurry]

The 125 songs scares me, but I actually should know a solid majority of the list, so I might give it a go.

[fearlessarrow]

Omg this will be EPIC!!!

[willapted33]

Sept 24, 2017 6:06:30 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

#TeamWeeknd

[ry4n]

I've added the list to the OP

[Deleted]

I am passing on this one sorry. Theres only a few songs that I enjoy, and the rest, I do not like at all.

[.indulgecountry]

This is a giant list, holy s**t. But, I know like 90% of these already (and like most of them) so I guess it shouldn't be *that* hard.

[★Disco★]

I know all of these. This is going to be such a hard one. Most of these I will just have to put somewhere.

[Deleted]

The sheer size of this list is definitely daunting. I probably would have used a 'top 10 on at least one chart somewhere in the world' threshold to narrow it down a bit - but lbr, it's Max Martin so that would have resulted in what, maybe 10 songs falling off? lol. Bookmarked with the hopes of getting this done.

[ry4n]

Yeah I know the size of this list is daunting, but I figured that since most people already know 90% of the songs, it would mitigate the size.

I'm also ok with the extending the deadline if people want extra time since it's so many songs.

[Red]

You'd think that a rankdown with 125 songs would be an impossible task, but so many of these songs were inescapable hits. This guy's track record was (and still is) ridiculous.

Hell, this rankdown has even been informative for me. I did not know he produced "I Don't Care". That one surprised me.

I'm going to do this, more than likely...but it might take me a little while.

[Az Paynter]

Yeah I really hope people don't turn their heads at the size because the familiarity ratio should be off the f**king charts lmao - especially for Pulse.

[peacebone]

I know most of these, but I don't like most of them either. I'll pass, but thanks for the tag.

[Deleted]

YES, I'M DOING THIS FOR CERTAIN
...if I survive picking a #1 off such a long list of songs I love

[Blurry]

I'll try to give this one a go. I think I know 80% of the list.

[Kurt]

I get tagged in the most random rankdowns, but this is one I might actually do and I'm paid dust. I see how it is Anyway, someone tag me on a weekend to do this!

[★Disco★]

Bumping this since this has been off the front page for a while.

[crazyb]

Should be sending this tonight

[Who The Hell Is Leo?✔]

I'll bookmark this. My #1 could be a surprise for all!

[Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast]

Already did the PR for this one.

Spoilers..I am going to be the biggest Perry tanker on this RD, besides one song.

[.exclusive]

I'll do this

[CF15]

Unfortunately, I won't have time to do this one. There are just too many songs and I am unfamiliar with a chunk of them. I'll be rooting for "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love" and "One More Night". Please do tag me in the results!

[fearlessarrow]

I just pulled out the songs that were in the RD and made a playlist:





I think there's one or two songs you have to listen to somewhere else but most of it is on here.

[MilesW1998]

Sent! This was easily the hardest rankdown I'v ever had to do. There were so many great songs, and not that many bad songs. I love a lot of these songs, so if any song is low because of me, I most likely do still like/love it. Except some of the song in my bottom 20 I think or bottom 30.

[YotamTS]

Gonna have to skip on this one too, there are just too many songs on the list and I don't know around half of them.

[Az Paynter]

I'm just hoping everyone's lists are just as f**ked as mine is. Same problem with Cynthia's Halloween rankdown; trying to balance more recent fare against classic material? #HellF**kingNo

[ry4n]

Posting tag reminders, which I've neglected to do since I posted this thread.

I've extended the deadline to the 16th.

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