{"id":460982,"date":"2026-02-10T22:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/460982\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:42:11","slug":"britney-spears-sells-the-rights-to-her-music-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/460982\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears sells the rights to her music catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britney Spears has sold the rights to her music catalog to publisher Primary Wave, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. <\/p>\n

Spears\u2019 representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Primary Wave also did not immediately respond. <\/p>\n

The deal between Spears and Primary Wave was for approximately $200 million, according to the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss a confidential matter. <\/p>\n

Spears, whose debut album was released in 1999, is behind iconic hits, including \u201cOops!\u2026 I Did It Again!,\u201d \u201c\u2026Baby One More Time,\u201d \u201cGimme More,\u201d \u201cCircus\u201d and \u201cNot A Girl, Not Yet A Woman.\u201d <\/p>\n

The pop star, 44, was released from her conservatorship in 2021,<\/a> after 13 years. In her 2023 memoir, \u201cThe Woman In Me<\/a>,\u201d she detailed how every aspect of her life was controlled by others. The book sold 1.1 million copies in the U.S. alone through its first week, and Universal Pictures later announced it had picked up<\/a> the rights to adapt it. (NBC News and Universal are both part of Comcast.)<\/p>\n

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In the years since being freed from her conservatorship, she married \u2014 and later divorced \u2014 Sam Asghari<\/a>. She has continued to draw attention online for her Instagram posts, which often feature her dancing in front of the camera or sharing stock images with cryptic captions.<\/p>\n

In a post on Instagram last week<\/a>, Spears wrote in a caption that she feels \u201cincredibly lucky to even be alive\u201d after how her family \u201ctreated\u201d her, adding that she\u2019s \u201cscared\u201d of her relatives. She has since deleted the caption, leaving just a photo of an adult holding a baby\u2019s hand. <\/p>\n

Spears is among several big-name artists who have sold their catalogs in recent years, including Bob Dylan (his recorded music to Sony Music Entertainment in 2022<\/a>, and his entire catalog to the Universal Music Group in 2020<\/a>) and Bruce Springsteen (to Sony Music for about $500 million in 2021<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Primary Wave owns the rights to music from Stevie Nicks, and the estates of Prince and Biggie Smalls, according to its website<\/a>, which also notes<\/a> that “the songs represented by Primary Wave include more than 1,000 Top 10 singles and over 400 No. 1 hits.” <\/p>\n

TMZ first reported<\/a> the Spears news.<\/p>\n

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Chloe Melas is an entertainment correspondent for NBC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Saba Hamedy is the trends and culture editor for NBC News.<\/p>\n

Erick Mendoza contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britney Spears has sold the rights to her music catalog to publisher Primary Wave, according to a source…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-460982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}