Britney Spears has bought the rights to her music catalog to writer Major Wave, in line with a supply with data of the deal.
Spears’ consultant didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Tuesday. A spokesperson for Major Wave additionally didn’t instantly reply.
The deal between Spears and Major Wave was for roughly $200 million, in line with the supply, who was granted anonymity to debate a confidential matter.
Spears, whose debut album was launched in 1999, is behind iconic hits, together with “Oops!… I Did It Once more!,” “…Child One Extra Time,” “Gimme Extra,” “Circus” and “Not A Lady, Not But A Girl.”
The pop star, 44, was launched from her conservatorship in 2021, after 13 years. In her 2023 memoir, “The Girl In Me,” she detailed how each side of her life was managed by others. The guide bought 1.1 million copies within the U.S. alone by its first week, and Common Photos later introduced it had picked up the rights to adapt it. (NBC Information and Common are each a part of Comcast.)
Within the years since being free of her conservatorship, she married — and later divorced — Sam Asghari. She has continued to attract consideration on-line for her Instagram posts, which regularly function her dancing in entrance of the digital camera or sharing inventory pictures with cryptic captions.
In a publish on Instagram final week, Spears wrote in a caption that she feels “extremely fortunate to even be alive” after how her household “handled” her, including that she’s “scared” of her kinfolk. She has since deleted the caption, leaving only a photograph of an grownup holding a child’s hand.
Spears is amongst a number of big-name artists who’ve bought their catalogs lately, together with Bob Dylan (his recorded music to Sony Music Leisure in 2022, and his complete catalog to the Common Music Group in 2020) and Bruce Springsteen (to Sony Music for about $500 million in 2021).
Major Wave owns the rights to music from Stevie Nicks, and the estates of Prince and Biggie Smalls, in line with its web site, which additionally notes that “the songs represented by Major Wave embody greater than 1,000 Prime 10 singles and over 400 No. 1 hits.”
TMZ first reported the Spears information.
Erick Mendoza contributed.
