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Britney Spears has reportedly sold off her entire catalog to music company Primary Wave for an unknown amount.
The deal, which includes the rights to some of pop music’s most iconic hits, like “Oops!… I Did It Again!,” “…Baby One More Time” and “Gimme More,” was confirmed by two sources to The Hollywood Reporter.
Spears’ representatives did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
Additional details of the supposed sale were reported by TMZ, which spoke with a source who called it a “landmark deal,” somewhere in the ballpark of Justin Bieber’s $200 million deal with Hipgnosis Songs Capital for the rights to his back catalog.
The documents, obtained by TMZ, are dated December 30, 2025.
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Britney Spears has reportedly sold off the rights to her entire music catalog to Primary Wave for an unknown amount (Getty Images)
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Spears was married to Kevin Federline from 2004 to 2007 (2006 AP)
The business move comes a month after Spears insisted she would “never” perform in the U.S., citing “extremely sensitive reasons.”
“Sending this piano to my son this year!!! Interestingly enough, I dance on IG to heal things in my body that people have no idea about. Yup and it’s embarrassing sometimes… but I walked through the fire to save my life…,” she wrote on Instagram in January, alongside an old tour picture of herself sat on stage at a white piano.
“I will never perform in the U.S. again because of extremely sensitive reasons but I hope to be sitting on a stool with a red rose in my hair, in a bun, performing with my son… in the UK and AUSTRALIA very soon. He’s a huge star and I’m so humbled to be in his presence!!! God speed, little man!!!”
The “Toxic” hitmaker has two sons with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline: 20-year-old Sean Preston Federline and 19-year-old Jayden James Federline. Spears was estranged from both children for some time, but reunited with her younger son, Jayden, around Christmas 2024.
Last March, she shared videos of Jayden rapping and playing the piano, describing him as a “genius.”
Widely referred to as the Princess of Pop, Spears first rose to fame in 1998 with the release of her debut single, “…Baby One More Time.” The song became the title track of her 1999 debut album, which also featured other top hits: “You Drive Me (Crazy)” and “Sometimes.”
In recent years, the Grammy-winning singer has found herself at the center of a string of controversies involving erratic social media behavior. She addressed her divisive social media activity in her 2023 memoir The Woman in Me, explaining that she gets “joy” from “posing the way I feel sexy.”
“I know that a lot of people don’t understand why I love taking pictures of myself naked or in new dresses,” Spears wrote in her best-selling autobiography.
“But I think if they’d been photographed by other people thousands of times, prodded and posed for other people’s approval, they’d understand that I get a lot of joy from posing the way I feel sexy and taking my own picture.”