Britney Spears has sold the rights to her music catalog, Us Weekly can confirm. Spears' deal is with Primary Wave, a music publishing company founded by executive Lawrence Mestel in 2006. The selling price is not known. Documents obtained by Us on Tuesday, February 10, reveal Spears turned over 100 percent of the songs she wrote and recorded prior to December 30, 2025 - including demos, physical tapes and digital files - in addition to all royalties from them. Primary Wave also now has the right to use Spears' name, image and likeness to market and promote her catalog with her approval. The filing lists every song that is a part of the deal, from Spears' greatest hits including "...
Baby One More Time" and "Toxic" to unreleased tracks such as "Intimidated" and "Whiplash." It also includes remixes, instrumental versions, radio edits and collaborations like "Hold Me Closer" with Elton John and "Scream & Shout" with will.i.am as well as her Christmas song "My Only Wish (This Year)" and the Zoey 101 theme "Follow Me," which she cowrote. (Spears' sister, Jamie Lynn, starred in the Nickelodeon sitcom.) How Britney Spears Is Helping Son Jayden, 19, Launch His Music Career TMZ was first to report the news on Tuesday, February 10. Us Weekly has reached out to Spears' rep for comment. Spears, 44, started her music career as a teen idol in the '90s and early 2000s. During that time, she released her bestselling albums ...
Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again. Spears was subsequently declared the Princess of Pop and dropped several albums, including Britney, In the Zone and Blackout. In the mid-aughts, Spears battled a series of personal struggles in the limelight. Following her 2007 divorce from ex-husband Kevin Federline, she was placed under a conservatorship, which surrendered her power to make legal, financial and business decisions to a team of people that included her father, Jamie Spears. Britney Spears' Sweetest Moments With Sons Preston and Jayden While under the conservatorship, Spears continued to make music and released the albums Circus, Femme Fatale, Britney Jean and Glory. She also held a residency in Las Vegas. Britney remained under the conservatorship until it was terminated by a judge 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 - a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself," she wrote. "The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me." Britney added that she was upset with her family for their roles in the situation. "I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick," she shared. "Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; 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." Britney Spears Shares Cryptic Post About 'Sadness and Darkness' Earlier this year, Britney declared that she was done performing in the United States. "I dance on IG to heal things in my body that people have no idea about. Yup and it's embarrassing sometimes ... but I walked through the fire to save my life," she wrote via Instagram in January alongside a throwback photo of herself at a white piano. "I will never perform in the U.S. again because of extremely sensitive reasons." Britney added she was open to the idea of sharing the stage with her son Jayden, 19. The singer also shares son Sean Preston, 20, with Federline. (Britney gushed that Jayden was 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!!! God speed, little man!!!"