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...Cheiron's decision to close at the end of 2000 was a surprise, at least to outsiders. A post on the studio's website said, "It's time to quit while we're ahead," leaving plenty of room for speculation about what really doomed the hit factory. Martin's music has reportedly made him a multimillionaire (he refuses to discuss his wealth). Maybe a clash of egos caused the rift. Or maybe Martin had chewed and spit out all the bubble-gum pop he had in him. Fiction, he says, but typically he didn't quash the talk...
...Martin now admits that the breakup was driven largely by his desire for the creative space to experiment without the burden of the Cheiron name. While the split ended a unique ethos - "You walked around, someone said, 'Hey, I need a tambourine,' and you'd do it" - he says it couldn't have lasted forever anyway. One of the studio's big risks was complacency, says Billboard's Nordic bureau chief Kai Lofthus, and now that Martin and Rami have set up their own place, Maratone, "they still have to push and keep on making good music...
...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...
...also happened to have a good voice and caught the ear of Cheiron's Denniz PoP, who shifted Crichlow's focus to song-writing. The hits soon followed. With PoP and Max Martin, Crichlow penned the Backstreet Boys' We've Got It Goin' On, while he and Martin wrote Quit Playin' Games...
...weren't for D., there would be no me," Crichlow says, so PoP's death in '98 hit hard. Crichlow left Cheiron that year. Some say the move meant the end of his career as a premier writer. Going it alone is unheard of in Sweden, where the music scene centers on collectives like Cheiron. So his recent work for B-list acts like No Authority got little notice...