{"id":291428,"date":"2026-02-11T00:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291428\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:34:07","slug":"britney-spears-sells-rights-to-music-catalogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291428\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears sells rights to music catalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US pop star Britney Spears has sold the rights to her songs, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old singer, known for hits including Toxic and Oops!&#8230; I Did It Again, has sold the rights to her catalogue to music publisher Primary Wave, according to US media outlet The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Spears was launched to worldwide fame in the late 1990s, following the release of her hit debut song &#8230; Baby One More Time.<\/p>\n<p>During her almost 30-year career, the singer has released a string of pop hits such as Gimme More, Womanizer, Lucky and I&#8217;m A Slave 4 U.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is believed to be worth around $200m (\u20ac168m), according to sources cited by celebrity site TMZ, though it said the exact amount is not detailed in legal documents.<\/p>\n<p>Spears joins a growing list of artists who have sold their music rights in recent years including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n<p>Spears and Primary Wave have both been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US pop star Britney Spears has sold the rights to her songs, according to reports. The 44-year-old singer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-291428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}