PRIMARY WAVE MUSIC PARTNERS WITH THE ESTATE OF DONNA SUMMER

PRIMARY WAVE MUSIC PARTNERS WITH THE ESTATE OF DONNA SUMMER

TERMS OF THE DEAL WILL SEE THE PUBLISHER PARTNER WITH HER ESTATE ON THE ICONIC SINGER’S MUSIC CATALOG AND BRANDING RIGHTS

“I must have heard ‘I Feel Love’ a thousand times and it still takes my breath away: it’s one of the great records of the 20^th century, and the name on the label is Donna Summer.”

-The Guardian

“She is an architect of the pop culture we experience today”

-New York Times

New York, NY (June 10, 2026) – Primary Wave Music, the leading independent publisher of iconic and legendary music in the world, has announced today its partnership with the estate of the incomparable 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 exciting 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 number one albums on Billboard’s Top 200. Summer dominated the charts with consecutive number one records and remains the only artist in history to have 3 consecutive double albums hits number one on the Billboard 200 – Live and More, Bad Girls, and On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II.

Of her nearly 90 singles that were released, thirty-two charted on the Billboard Hot 100, fourteen of them making the top 10, and four reached the number one spot. She was the first female artist in history to record four number one 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.

“Hot Stuff” was the lead single from Donna’s 7^th studio album, Bad Girls – an album that would go on to be one of her best-selling and most critically acclaimed albums of her career. Upon release, it was an instant hit. The single shot to number one and stayed there for three non-consecutive weeks and remained in the Top 10 for fourteen weeks. “Hot Stuff” has been certified platinum and won Donna a Grammy for “Best Female Rock Vocal Performance”. The single “Bad Girls” was a huge success, spending four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the Top 10 in over seven countries. The song, which sold more than 2 million copies, went on to win an American Music Award for “Favorite Pop/Rock Single” and was nominated for a Grammy.

Additional songs included are some of Summer’s greatest hits across her critically acclaimed career such as “I Feel Love,” “She Works Hard For The Money,” “Last Dance,” “On The Radio,” “Love To Love You Baby,” and others. Released in 1977, “I Feel Love” has been praised as one of the most important records in pop music. Since its release, the song has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, added to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, and was sampled by Beyonce on her song “Summer Renaissance.” One of the biggest hits of the 80s, “She Works Hard For The Money” was the title track of Summer’s eleventh studio album. The song reached number one on Billboard’s R&B singles chart and soared to the Top 10 on Hot 100 and Dance Club Play charts. It was nominated for an American Music Award as well as a Grammy Award for “Best Pop Vocal Performance.” Certified platinum, “Last Dance” was not only a Top 10 hit but was a critical and commercial success for Summer. The song won a number of awards including the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award and has since appeared on several “Best of” lists from VH1, Rolling Stone and more. “On The Radio” was a top 5 hit in the U.S. and shot to number 2 in Canada. The song became Summer’s tenth Top 10 hit in the US and eighth consecutive Top 5 single. One of her earliest singles, “Love To Love You Baby” became an international smash when it was released I n1975. It was Summer’s first US Top 40 hit and spent two weeks at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

A decorated entertainer, Donna been 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.