MXM and Wolf Cousins

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MXM and Wolf Cousins are a pair of Swedish songwriting and production organisations, founded and established by songwriter and record producer Max Martin. MXM Studios and its affiliated producers are based in New York City,^[1] and Wolf Cousins Music are in Los Angeles.^[2] Both MXM and Wolf Cousins are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, where their works originate, as they both derive 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 (no relation to the British band); Mattman & Robin members Mattias Larsson and Robin Fredriksson; Ilya Salmanzadeh; Ali Payami; and Oscar "OzGo" Gorres.^[8]