{"id":580997,"date":"2026-02-11T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/580997\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:11:14","slug":"britney-spears-sells-music-catalog-other-rights-to-primary-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/580997\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Sells Music Catalog, Other Rights to Primary Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\u2018s requests for comment; the news was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/10\/britney-spears-sells-music-catalog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TMZ;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Details were unclear \u2014and likely under iron-clad non-disclosure agreements \u2014 but TMZ estimated the deal to be in the low nine figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It seems safe to assume that Spears\u2019 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 \u201cher ownership share of her catalog\u201d to Primary Wave; it notes that the price was not included in the legal documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spears has songwriting credits on nearly 40 of the songs in her catalog, although few of them were major hits apart from the ballad \u201cEverytime\u201d and fan favorites like \u201cMe Against the Music,\u201d \u201cS&amp;M\u201d and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It seems extremely unlikely that Spears\u2019 NIL rights (name and likeness) were included in the deal, unless it was for exponentially more than the price TMZ speculates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spears has not released an album since 2016\u2019s \u201cGlory\u201d and has not performed in concert since October of 2018. She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/britney-spears-conservatorship-terminated-13-221253557.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:released from her conservatorship;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released from her conservatorship <\/a>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.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.variety.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Variety&#039;s Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Variety&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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