Primary Wave Music has announced its partnership with the estate of Donna Summer. Summer's estate will work alongside Primary Wave on her award-winning music catalog and recordings, as well as share in her name, image, and likeness rights.
This new partnership will also provide the estate access to Primary Wave's marketing team and publishing infrastructure, working closely on new marketing, branding, digital, and synch opportunities, as well as film & television projects.
Having sold more than 100 million albums across the globe, Donna Summer is considered to be one of the best-selling artists of all time. Her repertoire includes 17 studio albums which includes 3 No. 1 albums on Billboard's Top 200. Summer remains the only artist in history to have 3 consecutive double albums hitting the top of Billboard 200 chart - Live and More, Bad Girls, and On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II.
Of her nearly 90 singles that were released, 32 charted on the Billboard Hot 100, 14 of them making the top 10, and four reached the No. 1 spot. She was the first female artist to record four No. 1 songs in a 13-month span including "MacArthur Park" and "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" with Barbara Streisand, as well as "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls," all included in this new partnership.
Donna, who became known as the "Queen of Disco" during the disco era of the 1970s, died in 2012. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2025, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the early 90s.
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