{"id":419902,"date":"2026-02-11T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419902\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:50:10","slug":"pop-star-britney-spears-sells-back-catalogue-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419902\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop star Britney Spears sells back catalogue rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

US pop star Britney Spears has sold part of her rights to her back catalogue, which includes hits such as \u2026Baby One More Time, Oops!\u2026 I Did It Again and Toxic.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old singer has sold the rights to music publisher Primary Wave for an unknown fee, the Press Association understands.<\/p>\n

It is reportedly unclear what type of rights the publisher has acquired, with Sony Music said to own and control the rights to her recorded catalogue.<\/p>\n

\"Britney<\/p>\n

The sale comes after Spears was released from her conservatorship in 2021 (Tony DiMaio\/PA)<\/p>\n

(Tony DiMaio)<\/p>\n

The purchase comes after Spears\u2019 13-year conservatorship, set up in 2008, which had control of her career decisions and finances, ended in 2021.<\/p>\n

After regaining control of her career, Spears released a collaboration with Sir Elton John in 2022, and later collaborated with Black Eyed Peas member Will.i.am on a track titled Mind Your Business in 2023.<\/p>\n

Spears\u2019 career has seen her achieve six UK number one singles and eight UK top 10 albums.<\/p>\n

She has also collaborated with stars such as Madonna, Iggy Azelea and Backstreet Boys.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the singer said she would \u201cnever return to the music industry\u201d and shut down speculation that a new album was on the way in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Spears released her memoir, The Woman In Me, in 2023, which is reportedly being adapted for a film.<\/p>\n

She has also won one Grammy for best dance recoding for her song Toxic and has been nominated for a further seven along with four Brit Awards.<\/p>\n

Spears and Primary Wave have both been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US pop star Britney Spears has sold part of her rights to her back catalogue, which includes hits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1435,96,128,154855,154856,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-419902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-britney-spears","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-music-publisher","12":"tag-primary-wave","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}