LONDON \u2014 Pop star Britney Spears has sold her rights to \u200bher music catalogue to independent music publisher Primary Wave, the latest artist to strike a deal for her \u200cwork.<\/p>\n
Entertainment site TMZ, citing legal documents it had obtained, first reported the news, saying \u2060the “Oops! … I Did It \u200bAgain” and “Toxic” singer had signed \u2060the deal on Dec. 30.<\/p>\n
It quoted sources as saying it \u200cwas “in the ballpark” \u200cof Canadian singer Justin Bieber’s reported $200 million agreement to \u2060sell his music rights to \u2060Hipgnosis in 2023.<\/p>\n
A person familiar with the situation said news of the Spears and Primary Wave deal was accurate. No further details were given.<\/p>\n
Primary Wave, which is home to artists including Whitney Houston, Prince and Stevie Nicks, did \u200cnot immediately respond to a request for \u200bcomment. Spears has not commented publicly.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old, one of the most successful pop artists of all time, has topped charts around the world, starting off with “… Baby One More Time” in 1998. The deal includes her songs such as “(You Drive Me) Crazy”, “Circus”, “Gimme More” and “I’m a Slave 4 U”, TMZ \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n
Spears’ ninth and last studio album, “Glory”, came out in 2016.<\/p>\n
In 2021, \u200cshe was released \u200cfrom \u2060a 13-year court-ordered conservatorship set up and controlled by her father, Jamie Spears. The arrangement had governed Spears’ personal life, career and $60 million estate from 2008 until it was terminated in \u200cNovember 2021.<\/p>\n
Spears follows artists \u200bsuch as Sting, Bruce Springsteen \u200cand Justin Timberlake who \u2060have struck \u200bdeals to cash in on their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Pop star Britney Spears has sold her rights to \u200bher music catalogue to independent music publisher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[28,1302,2692,3811,88,3812,134,3729,216,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-463832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-celebrity","tag-classifieds","tag-entertainment","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-music","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463832","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=463832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}