Britney Spears has sold the rights to his music catalog, Us Weekly can confirm
Spears’ deal is with Primary Wave, a music publishing company founded by an executive Lawrence Mestel in 2006. The sale price is unknown.
Documents obtained by we on Tuesday, February 10, reveals that Spears handed over 100 percent of the songs she wrote and recorded before December 30, 2025, including demos, physical tapes and digital files, plus all royalties. Primary Wave also now has the right to use Spears’ name, image and likeness to market and promote her catalog with her approval.
The archive includes all the songs that are part of the deal, from Spears’ biggest hits like “…Baby One More Time” and “Toxic” to previously unreleased tracks like “Intimidated” and “Whiplash.” Also includes remixes, instrumental covers, radio edits and collaborations like “Hold Me Closer” with Elton John and “Scream & Shout” with will.i.am as well as his Christmas song “My Only Wish (This Year)” and the Zoey 101 track “Follow Me”, which she co-wrote. (Spears’ sister, Jamie Lynnstarred in the Nickelodeon sitcom.)
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TMZ was the first to report the news on Tuesday, February 10.
Us Weekly Spears’ rep has been contacted for comment.
Spears, 44, began her music career as a teen idol in the 1990s and early 2000s. During that time, she released her best-selling albums…Baby one more time i Oops!…I did it again. Subsequently, Spears was declared the princess of pop and dropped several albums, among them britney, In the area i off.
Halfway through, Spears battled a series of personal struggles in the spotlight. After her 2007 divorce from ex-husband Kevin Federlineshe was placed under a guardianship, which ceded her power to make legal, financial and business decisions to a team of people that included her father, Jamie Spears.
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While under guardianship, Spears continued to make music and released albums circus, Femme fatale, Britney Jean i glory. He also did a residency in Las Vegas.
Britney remained under conservatorship until a judge canceled it in November 2021. Two years later, the pop star opened up about feeling trapped while under conservatorship for 13 years in her memoir. The woman in me.
“I became a robot. But not just a robot, kind of a child robot. I had infantilized myself so much that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she wrote. “Guardianship stripped me of my femininity, turned me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person on stage. I had always felt the music in my bones and blood; it was stolen from me.”
Britney added that she was upset with her family for their roles in the situation.
“Now I think that my father and his associates have control over my body and my money for so long and it makes me sick,” she shared. “Think about how many male artists gambled away all their money; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money. I didn’t deserve what my family did to me.”
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“Dancing on IG to heal things in my body that people have no idea about. Yes, and sometimes it’s embarrassing…but I walked through fire to save my life,” she wrote via Instagram in January alongside a photo of herself on a white piano. “I will never perform in the United States again for extremely sensitive reasons.”
Britney added that she was open to the idea of sharing the stage with her 19-year-old son Jayden. The singer also shares son Sean Preston, 20, with Federline. (Britney called Jayden a “genius” in a March 2025 Instagram post that featured a clip of him playing the piano.)
“I hope to be sitting on a stool with a red rose in my hair, in a bun, performing with my son… in the UK and AUSTRALIA very soon,” she continued, referring to Jayden. “He’s a huge star and I’m so humbled to be in his presence!!! My God, little man!!!”