What is Max's strike rate ?

[Rebecca]

Hi, I have my first draft of Max Martin's Strike Rate ready. It's 52%

Anyway, I copied his songlist from Wikipedia, put it in excel and then copied all the chart information I could find on Wikipedia and also did a bit of searching around on Billboard etc.

So, I just looked at Max's singles per album and if they were hits or not, in the end I didn't include all the singles released per album not written by Max as that will take more time (and Max's Strike Rate much lower). I was pretty loose with giving out the "Hit" rating, if it was a hit anywhere, I said a hit. Eg Marion Raven's singles were popular in Japan and Norway so I said "Hit"!

Also, another version can be just looking at Max's singles and if they were hits or not - that will Max's Strike Rate much higher!

I still haven't worked out a way so that the webpage is easy to read, with a heading at the top that stays there, hopefully I'll work it out soon, so sorry it's a bit hard to read.

Anyway, here's the link: http://www.maxmartinfansite.com/MaxMartinStrikeRate.htm

The one's highlighted in green, I 'm not sure at all and don't know where to look for information. Also, I think I'm missing some songs, I haven't double checked.
If you see any mistakes, things missed, please let me know.

[turnaround]

Oh Reb, this was lots of work, thanks for this.
Very interesting to read.

[Rebecca]

Yes, it was a lot of work! it is very interesting. I'll continue to perfect it. It's something I wanted to do for a long time, summarising the chart information, so it's a good start.

[Unexpected]

oh it must took alot of time and work from you , thanx for dor doing this rebecca

[*Sabine*]

wow, really impressive! thanks for all these precious information reb!

[Feelgoodlies]

Thanks for this hard work reb, Wikipedia should hire you 

[Rebecca]

Thanks, it took a while! and still I'm missing songs etc

I couldn't have done it without Wikipedia! I copied most of it from them!

[secski]

haha, this was very interesting!

loved it.

i remember reading an interview years ago featuring max, and they said for every tune he records he has come up with 100 others or something. He makes the hits cos he has a very high throw out rate, he has a high standard below which he is not satisfied with. awesome!