Britney Spears Sells Music Catalog, Other Rights to Primary Wave

Britney Spears has sold her song catalog and an unclear number of other rights to Primary Wave, two sources confirm to Variety. Reps for both Spears and Primary Wave declined Variety‘s requests for comment; the news was first reported by TMZ.

Details were unclear —and likely under iron-clad non-disclosure agreements — but TMZ estimated the deal to be in the low nine figures.

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It seems safe to assume that Spears’ artist royalties and publishing rights were included in the deal. The TMZ report, which is based on legal documents the publication says it has viewed, says she sold “her ownership share of her catalog” to Primary Wave; it notes that the price was not included in the legal documents.

Spears has songwriting credits on nearly 40 of the songs in her catalog, although few of them were major hits apart from the ballad “Everytime” and fan favorites like “Me Against the Music,” “S&M” and others.

It seems extremely unlikely that Spears’ NIL rights (name and likeness) were included in the deal, unless it was for exponentially more than the price TMZ speculates.

Spears has not released an album since 2016’s “Glory” and has not performed in concert since October of 2018. She was released from her conservatorship in 2021 and has kept a relatively low public profile since then, although she frequently posts free-form and sometimes-unnerving notes and videos of herself dancing at home on social media.

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