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...Stockholm cityscape. "I don't think I'll ever move away." And why should he? The Swedish capital may be a far cry - and a long plane ride - from the hyperactive nerve centers of pop music in New York and Los Angeles, but industry execs and artists - even Britney Spears! - make the trek anyway, to Martin's studio on the south side of town, to the Hit Man himself. Never heard of Martin? Chances are you've hummed, listened to, danced to or at least disparaged his tunes. "Max is the melody king," says Spears of the man who wrote...
...didn't take long. '... Baby, One More Time' and the album of the same name both entered the U.S. charts at No. 1, making Spears the first new artist ever to pull off that feat. The Britney hype machine spinning in overdrive helped, but Martin's prowess for writing songs with global appeal was crucial. "Max has this magic dust that he sprinkles over records," says Louis Walsh, who manages Westlife and Boyzone. "His songs are worldwide pop monsters...
...Martin took the musical reins, while studio co-founder Tom Talomaa continued to oversee the business side. They kept Cheiron's modus operandi - plenty of video-game breaks, practical jokes and the like - that PoP had instituted. And the music actually got bigger, with Martin's hits for Backstreet, Britney, Celine Dion and 'N Sync as well as huge songs from other teams, including Kristian Lun-din and Jake's Bye Bye Bye for 'N Sync, and Jörgen Elofsson, Per Magnusson and David Kreuger's Westlife singles...
...Cheiron guys, Martin and Rami have been the quickest to get their new studio off the ground. Last month, the desks weren't set up and the boxes weren't all unpacked. But the TV, the PlayStation and the fridge full of Red Bull were plugged in. Britney Spears was in too, working on her third album, slated for a November release...
...wonderful collision of opposites: preppy pigtail and glasses with pistol-packing twin thigh holsters. Male video gamers were hooked. And for the first time, so were their wives and girlfriends. "I think [Croft] is a new definition of celebrity," says "Tomb Raider" producer Lloyd Levin. "Christina and Britney have massive popularity, but they are vacuous, so absolutely vacuous. A lot of females love Lara. She's contradictory, very human and obsessed with death. She'd rather be in tombs than in the daylight. She's not contrived, she speaks her mind, she's honest. That's why Angelina...