Max Martin, Pope of Pop by BringMoreLegos

Okay, you knew we were starting here... what's Max Martin's FULL BIRTH NAME? (Hint: The first one is a gimme, and the two that follow are a poetic homophone.)

From what INTERNATIONAL CITY does Martin hail, the capital of a nation whose public music education program paved the way for his massive success?

Two answers required. In 1999, Martin achieved his first Billboard #1 as a songwriter, a mark he would hit not one, but twenty-one more times up through his most recent in 2016 — quite the incessant sensation! What TWO SONGS bookend this feat? (I will also accept the artist's name for either one.)

Who is the only MUSIC LUMINARY in Billboard history with more number-one singles as a producer than Max Martin (to whom he bears no relation)? Be specific.

Max Martin has charted over 50 top 10 singles; what PERFORMER can claim the most top-ten hits (11) in collaboration with him? This artist is quite a ghostwriter in their own right, having supplied tracks to such fellow FOMs (Friends of Max) as Kelly Clarkson, Selena Gomez, and Britney Spears.

Before carving his image in the pop landscape, Martin fronted a glam-funk-metal band, because of course he did. What was HIS BAND'S NAME, shared with a 1974 horror film about a murderous mutant baby, scored by Bernard Hermann?

Martin began his career at Denniz PoP's production house (which sounds like a word for a lower-third in TV production), then founded his own studio (which sounds a little like his own name), and subsequently began two more producing ventures (one is a pseudoinitialism, the other a phrase that might describe dogs). What is the name of ANY ONE OF THESE PRODUCTION STUDIOS?

The tragic death of a man in his prime, some might say, demonstrates to us the impact of solitude. Martin's writer-producer mentor Denniz PoP died of stomach cancer at only 35, prompting the Backstreet Boys to dedicate what MUSIC VIDEO to his memory?

Martin is no stranger to the Adult Contemporary charts, having plastered a ubiquitous megahit all over the late-1999 airwaves in support of the greatest hits compilation All the Way... A Decade of Song. What SONG OR SOLO ARTIST was so difficult to escape at the turn of the millennium (a state of things which we simply had to live with)?

Martin has numerous Grammy nominations and a few wins, but to date only one of his songs has been nominated for Academy Award, from the soundtrack of what, er, HAIR-RAISING FILM? (Big hint: Martin's total number of Oscar wins has yet to be determined.)

From 1999-2001 and again from 2011-2016, Martin put together a Grover Clevelandesque run as ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year. What is the FULL ORGANIZATION NAME represented by the acronym "ASCAP"?

The bonus material for Taylor Swift's 1989 includes a brief rare glimpse into the studio with Martin. As she plays an unfinished "Blank Space" for him for the first time, he improvises "Ey!" and "Oh!" background shouts under the chorus (an idea that would make the final cut). Swift compares this to "an early 2000s" track by what ARTIST, probably thinking of his hit "Ride wit' Me"?

In this 2002 film, a song by Martin, frequent collaborator Rami Yacoub, and Dido appears as a lyric in the main character's journal, discovered by her love interest and set to music for her climactic performance. The singer who played this character would include the song on her next album when no soundtrack for the film was released. What was this MOVIE, written by a young Shonda Rhimes?

In 1999, the Backstreet Boys' Millennium (heavily featuring Martin's work) set a record for the highest first-week sales of any album. Since then, it has been surpassed by 50 Cent's The Massacre, Taylor Swift's Red and 1989, Britney Spears's Oops... I Did It Again, Backstreet's Black and Blue, Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, *NSync's Celebrity and No Strings Attached, and Adele's 25. On HOW MANY of these top ten fastest-selling albums (including Millennium) did Martin work his magic?