{"id":468391,"date":"2026-02-11T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468391\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:42:10","slug":"britney-spears-sells-rights-to-entire-music-catalogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468391\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears sells rights to entire music catalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pop superstar Britney Spears has sold the rights to her entire music catalogue, the BBC has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spears, 44, is said to have sold to independent music publisher Primary Wave on 30 December for around $200m (\u00a3146m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The singer &#8211; whose protracted conservatorship long dictated her personal and professional life &#8211; is known for the hits &#8230;Baby One More Time, Oops!&#8230; I Did It Again, Toxic and Gimme More.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Primary Wave did not immediately respond to the BBC&#8217;s requests for comment. Representatives for Spears declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In January 2024, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-67880581?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:singer said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">singer said<\/a> she would &#8220;never return to the music industry&#8221;. Her last song was a duet released with Elton John in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Primary Wave has also acquired rights to the estates of Notorious BIG, Prince and Whitney Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Details of the sale and the exact price of Spears&#8217; catalogue have not been made public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">High-profile artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, and Shakira recently sold their catalogues too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Springsteen sold his back catalogue to Sony in 2021 for $500m, and Bieber reportedly signed a $200m deal with Hipgnosis Songs Capital in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The publisher was founded 20 years ago by music executive Lawrence Mestel after purchasing 50% of Kurt Cobain&#8217;s portion of the Nirvana catalogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spears is one of the best-selling female artists, with more than 150 million records sold worldwide. Her catalogue includes nine studio albums since her debut in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sale comes after a tumultuous few years for the singer, who in 2021 ended a 13-year-long conservatorship \u2013 a legal guardianship that saw her finances and personal life controlled by her father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The singer published her memoir in 2023 titled The Woman in Me, which detailed her struggles living under the conservatorship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her ex-husband Kevin Federline released his own memoir, You Thought You Knew, at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop superstar Britney Spears has sold the rights to her entire music catalogue, the BBC has learned. 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