Britney Spears sells music catalogue to Primary Wave in major 9-figure deal
Britney Spears has just made one of the most headline-grabbing business moves of her career—the Pop icon has sold her music catalogue and related rights to music publisher Primary Wave in what insiders are calling a landmark music-industry deal.
Finalised on December 30, 2025, the agreement hands over Spears’s ownership share of her song library—including era-defining hits like ‘…Baby One More Time’, ‘Oops!… I Did It Again’, ‘Toxic’, and ‘Gimme More’—to Primary Wave, a company known for managing the catalogues of giants such as Prince, Whitney Houston and Stevie Nicks. Whilst neither Britney nor Primary Wave has publicly confirmed the terms, reports estimate the transaction lands in the nine-figure range, with some sources comparing it to Justin Bieber’s roughly $200 million catalogue deal.
This sale reunites Spears with a business strategy many legacy artists are leaning into in the streaming era: Monetising intellectual property while offloading future earnings and rights. For Britney, whose last studio album ‘Glory’ dropped in 2016 and who hasn’t toured the United States since 2018, this move represents a major pivot from performing life to legacy management and financial empowerment.
Primary Wave now controls how Britney’s songs can be licensed—for films, commercials, games and beyond—a shift that could bring her classic tracks to new audiences and contexts for years to come.
For fans, this moment is bittersweet: The music that shaped late-’90s and 2000s Pop is now in new hands, even as Britney herself steps further back from the spotlight.
