{"id":2278564,"date":"2026-02-12T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2278564"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:14:39","slug":"pop-star-britney-spears-sells-back-catalogue-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pop-star-britney-spears-sells-back-catalogue-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop star Britney Spears sells back catalogue rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 858px;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;\">\n<p>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<p>The 44-year-old singer has sold the rights to music publisher Primary Wave for an unknown fee, the Press Association understands.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>Spears\u2019 career has seen her achieve six UK number one singles and eight UK top 10 albums.<\/p>\n<p>She has also collaborated with stars such as Madonna, Iggy Azelea and Backstreet Boys.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Spears released her memoir, The Woman In Me, in 2023, which is reportedly being adapted for a film.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Spears and Primary Wave have both been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gdnonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. The 44-year-old singer has sold the rights to music publisher Primary Wave for an unknown fee, the Press Association understands. It is reportedly unclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pop-star-Britney-Spears-sells-back-catalogue-rights.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278566,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278564\/revisions\/2278566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}