Madonna album title claims denied

Madonna's publicist has denied reports that the singer's eleventh album will be called Licorice.

Liz Rosenberg also dismissed claims by Sirius Satellite Radio that the LP will be released in April.

In an email to Reuters, she wrote: "Sirius does not know what they are talking about. Wrong title. Release date wrong etc."

The record will be Madonna's last on the Warner Brothers label after she secured a deal with Live Nation, rumoured to be worth $120 million (£59 million), earlier this year.

The album - her first since 2005's Confessions On A Dancefloor - will feature Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, fuelling speculation that it will be strongly influenced by hip-hop.