MXM and Wolf Cousins

MXM and Wolf Cousins are a pair of Swedish song writing and production organisations, founded and established by renowned songwriter and record producer Max Martin. MXM Studios and its affiliated producers are currently based in New York City^[1] and Wolf Cousins Music are in Los Angeles, California.^[2] However, both MXM and Wolf Cousins are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, where them and their works originate, as it was descended from the works of Maratone Studios and Cheiron Studios.^[3]

Both of these studios together have formed a music collective around many of Max Martin's affiliates. The MXM team consists of Martin himself, Rami Yacoub, Savan Kotecha, Carolina Liar members Johan Carlsson, Peter Carlsson and Rickard Goransson, Cardigans guitarist Peter Svensson and Elvira Anderfjard.^[4][5] This also did include Dr. Luke up until 2014.^[6][7] Wolf Cousins consists of Shellback, Oscar Holter, Jakob Jerlstrom and Ludvig Soderberg who produce together under the moniker The Struts, Mattman & Robin members Mattias Larsson and Robin Fredriksson, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Ali Payami and Oscar "OzGo" Gorres.^[8]