{"id":278976,"date":"2026-02-11T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278976\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:38:13","slug":"britney-spears-sells-rights-to-her-music-catalogue-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278976\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears sells rights to her music catalogue \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britney Spears<\/a>, the queen of millennial-era bubblegum pop, has sold her music catalogue, according a person familiar with the deal.<\/p>\n

Her music rights were acquired by Primary Wave, a New York<\/a>-based music and marketing company that specialises in catalogue deals, according to the person, who was not authorised to discuss it publicly.<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for Spears and Primary Wave declined to comment. The news was reported earlier Tuesday by TMZ.<\/p>\n

Details of the transaction were unclear, including the price and exactly what rights were transferred. Similar catalogue acquisitions frequently include the artist\u2019s royalties as a performing artist and any songwriting rights, which are separate from those for recordings.<\/p>\n

With hits like … Baby One More Time, Oops! … I Did It Again and Toxic, Spears, 44, became an icon of the new wave of candied electronic pop that dominated the music industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. <\/p>\n

She sold tens of millions of albums, scored five number one hits on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100 singles chart and was tracked incessantly by the celebrity media machine.<\/p>\n

While the terms of the Spears deal are unknown, prices for the catalogues of other star recording artists have soared, with top-tier performers including Bruce Springsteen, Sting and Justin Bieber receiving hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Spears has writing credits on a number of her tracks, including Everytime; Me Against the Music, with Madonna; and a remix of the Rihanna song S&M, which reached No. 1.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0\u2018I want my life back\u2019: Britney Spears asks court to end \u2018abusive\u2019 conservatorshipOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears began her entertainment career as a preteen cast member on the Disney show The All-New Mickey Mouse Club before signing to Jive Records at age 15. She becoming a chart-topping star one year later with … Baby One More Time.<\/p>\n

At her peak, she was a top touring attraction, had lucrative brand deals and, along with Christina Aguilera, the Backstreet Boys and \u2019N Sync, was played constantly on MTV, defining a new era of pop music.<\/p>\n

But by 2007, when she was pictured with a shaved head hitting a photographer\u2019s car with an umbrella, her personal struggles had begun to take over her public narrative. The next year she was placed in a conservatorship, after her father petitioned a court for authority over his adult daughter\u2019s life and finances, citing her very public mental health struggles and possible substance abuse.<\/p>\n

That conservatorship dominated her life for nearly 14 years. In June 2021, Spears spoke out in court, telling Brenda Penny, the judge overseeing her conservatorship: \u201cI just want my life back\u201d. Five months later, the judge agreed, terminating the arrangement.<\/p>\n

In October 2023, Spears released a memoir titled The Woman in Me, which frequently returns to a theme of feeling too much in the public eye.<\/p>\n

In 2024, she disputed rumours she was planning a new album, writing on Instagram: \u201cI will never return to the music industry!!!\u201d <\/p>\n

Last month, she wrote, \u201cI will never perform in the U.S. again because of extremely sensitive reasons,\u201d but teased a desire to take the stage overseas with one of her sons.<\/p>\n

Her last performance was in 2018, when she ended her Piece of Me Tour in Austin, Texas. She last released a song in 2022 \u2013 a collaboration with Elton John, built around his own Tiny Dancer. A planned Las Vegas residency called Britney: Domination was cancelled before it began in 2019. Her last studio album, Glory, arrived in 2016.<\/p>\n

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