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Beyoncé will reportedly drop her new album in April.
The 34-year-old star - who recently unveiled her new single and video for surprise track 'Formation' - is expected to release her next LP in just two months time.
A source said: "[She] is close to making a new worldwide, multi-album deal with Sony Music; the final release under the current deal is now set for April."
It is also thought the 'Run The World' hitmaker may also release a second album, a "joint project" with her husband Jay Z, later this year.
The insider added to Hits Daily Double: "There are rumours of another Beyoncé album in 2016, this one a joint project with husband Jay Z."
Meanwhile, Beyoncé previously admitted her Superbowl performance made her feel "proud".
She said: "It felt great. It makes me proud. I wanted people to feel proud, and have love for themselves."
However, her favourite part of the night was watching headliners' Coldplay's set because she could watch it rom the back.
She added: "The best part was seeing Coldplay, for me, because I was able to watch from the back."
Beyoncé is also set to head out on a world tour later this year and will perform across North America and Europe.

Yoko Ono will "never" retire from music.
The 83-year-old musician-and-artist's only interest in life is for her art to be "something beautiful" and she's not about to give up her passion even though she's in her mid-eighties.
Asked if she'll ever stop making music, she told the Guardian newspaper: "I won't stop. No, I never think that. Artists are obsessive, they want to keep doing it. And I'm an artist. My sole interest is in creating something beautiful. When I say beautiful .... well, the maximum beauty can be ugly to some people."
Yoko - who is the widow of the late Beatle legend John Lennon - recently picked up the NME Inspiration Award and said she hopes her work continues to influence other artists.
She told BANG Showbiz: "I want to keep on making music and art and keep on inspiring people. But I don't know what my fans take from what I do with my work and my website, I just keep dishing out things and I hope for the best, but I never know how people will react to what I do."
The 'Give Peace a Chance' hitmaker has just released her new collaborative LP featuring the likes of Moby, Death Cab For Cutie and Sparks called 'Yes, I'm A Witch Too'.

Slash is reportedly working on new Guns 'N Roses music without Axl Rose.
The 'Paradise City' hitmakers' former publicist, Arlett Vereecke, has revealed the recently-reformed group are currently "in the studio" ahead of their massive comeback at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April, but the frontman hasn't been to the recording sessions yet.
She told Classic Rock magazine: "I know they're doing some recording. They're definitely doing something there in the studio. Axl hasn't been there, but Slash is definitely in there and it's not for anyone else."
And that's not all, Alan Niven - the first GNR manager who served from 1986 to 1991 - says bassist Duff McKagan and guitarist Izzy Stradlin are also believed to have worked on a number of tracks together.
Alan said: "Duff and Izzy were in the studio before Christmas doing stuff. At a casual glance I think they've got at least a couple of tracks down."
The original line-up currently consists of frontman Axl, Slash and Duff, but it's rumoured Izzy will also be involved.
The legendary rock group are gearing up for their Coachella warm up dates in Las Vegas and Mexico in April.
It is the first time the classic line-up of the group will have been together on stage since 1993.
It is still not yet known who will take on drumming duties with former percussionist Steven Adler - who played on debut LP 'Appetite For Destruction' - and 'Use Your Illusion' era musician Matt Sorum both expressing an interest in participating in the reunion and being prepared to share duties.

Ariana Grande has teased that she's changed her album title to 'Dangerous Woman'.
The 'Love Me Harder' hitmaker originally called her eagerly-anticipated third LP 'Moonlight', but hinted that she was likely to rename it last month when she appeared on 'The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon'.
And now the 22-year-old pop beauty has posted an update on her Snapchat account with a photo of a whiteboard with 'Dangerous Woman' at the top and the start of a tracklisting just showing the first song as 'Moonlight'.
The new album name comes from a track the singer wrote during the final stages of the forthcoming release.
Talking about the track, she said: "A really long time ago I was convinced that it was going to be called 'Moonlight' because it's one of my favourite songs that we did for the album.
"And now, as we're wrapping things up, of course I've been writing and singing, we're at the final stretch...now there's this other song that has thrown me for a whirlwind and I love it so much, it's changed everything."
Ariana previously dropped the first single 'Focus', which peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was released in October.
So far the tracks include 'Dangerous Woman', 'Moonlight' and 'Focus'.
The LP is yet to be given a release date.

Take That have beaten Adele to be voted Best Comeback Artist.
The 'Want You Back' hitmakers' reunion with former member Robbie Williams in 2010 has been voted the best comeback of all time according to a survey conducted by MasterCard in celebration of The BRITs.
The 'Hello' singer's triumphant return to the charts late last year after a three-year hiatus took second place in the poll, with the late David Bowie's surprise comeback in 2014 taking third spot, Kate Bush's 22-night 2014 London residency in fourth and Fleetwood Mac's reunion tour that same year in fifth.
Elsewhere, the research found late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is the nation's most missed star with almost half of the 1,000 people surveyed dreaming of a 'Bohemian Rhapsody' reunion.
Shaun Springer, Head of Brand and Sponsorship, for MasterCard UK & Ireland, commented: "Ahead of Adele's much-talked about return to the BRITs stage, we wanted to look back to see what the nation considered to be the best comebacks of all time. The results show how diverse the country's music taste is ranging from Freddie Mercury to Take That."
Adele will be joined by Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Ellie Goulding, James Bay and many more at the 2016 BRIT Awards sponsored by MasterCard at London's The O2 tomorrow (24.02.16).

Ed Sheeran's new song 'Brother's Blood' can only be heard in 'Grimsby'.
The 25-year-old singer won't be making the song available for download or streaming, and it won't even feature on the movie's soundtrack.
Instead, fans will only get to hear it if Ed's friend Sacha Baron Cohen plays the song while promoting his new movie, or if fans visit cinemas to see the comedy.
Of the pairing, a source told The Sun newspaper: "Sacha and Ed have become big pals over the past few years.
"During Ed's early days Sacha wasn't really familiar with his work. He had no idea who he was when they were introduced.
"But they're both creative geniuses and have an obvious connection on that front, agreeing to help each other out where possible."
And 44-year-old Sacha - who plays Nobby in the comedy movie - has a lot of praise for the flame-haired singer but joked that he's surprised he doesn't have a "disabled badge" on his motor because of the colour of his hair.
He quipped: "He's [Ed] a good lad. Impressive that he chooses not to have a disabled badge on his car despite having ginger hair."
The track is likely to be the only chance fans of the multi-award-winning star will get to hear new material in the forseeable future, as he doesn't plan on releasing the follow-up to 2014's 'x' until much later this year.

Rihanna has beaten Michael Jackson's record for the artist to chart the third-most US number one hits of all time.
The 28-year-old R&B superstar's latest single 'Work' has become her 14th track to top the Billboard Hot 100, overtaking the late King of Pop's 13 chart-topping records.
Taking to her twitter account in excitement, she said: "#WORK tops Billboard #Hot100!! Navy you killed it this week! #NavyRDie (sic)"
And Billboard confirmed: "The song becomes Rihanna's 14th leader, lifting her past Michael Jackson for the third-most No. 1s all-time.(sic)"
However, the Bajan beauty is still some way behind the record for the most US number ones, with The Beatles leading the way with 20 chart-topping tracks, just ahead of Mariah Carey, who has scored 18 number ones in her career.
Meanwhile, the sexy singer has touched down in London ahead of her eagerly-anticipated performance at the BRIT Awards - which are sponsored by MasterCard - tomorrow night (24.02.16).
It was speculated whether or not the 'Only Girl In The World' hitmaker will make it to the prestigious awards ceremony at London's The O2 after she cancelled a number of dates of her ANTI World Tour and her performance at the Grammys due to bronchitis, as well as pulling out of last year's Brits.
However, hosts Ant & Dec are certain she'll show up.
Ant told The Sun newspaper: "Rihanna's plane has touched down so we are fairly certain she will be performing. She didn't even get on it last year, so at least she is physically in the country."

Kendrick Lamar will induct hip hop crew N.W.A. into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The ceremony is set to take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on April 8, where the 'Compton' rapper will honour the surviving N.W.A members; Ice Cube, MC Ren, Yella and Dr. Dre.
Speaking in December when the list of inductees was announced Ice Cube, 42, said it shows people "understand what the group did and what it means to modern music".
He said: "It's hard to sum up exactly what it means. It means a lot of things. It means that the group's mark is kind of solidified. It's all legitimised in a way because the whole music industry has to honour the group in a way ... It's everything that kind of eluded us in a lot of ways when we were coming up. So many people were opinionated about N.W.A. I think everyone now at this point, no matter how you feel about us, understands what the group actually did and what it means to modern music."
The 'You Can Do It' hitmaker thinks late N.W.A member Eazy E - who died in March 1995 - will be thrilled with the recognition.
He said: "I think he'd be real excited because he was always fighting for legitimacy, whether it was trying to get out of the dope gang and become a legitimate, productive person in society."
As well as N.W.A., this year will also see Cheap Trick - who will be inducted by Kid Rock - Chicago, Deep Purple and Steve Miller added to the Hall of Fame.

Charli XCX thinks her new album will be "really groundbreaking for pop music".
The 'Boom Clap' hitmaker admits there is still a lot of work to do on her latest record but she already has high hopes for how it will be received by the world.
She said: "Yeah it's done but there's still a lot of stages to go. You know mixing and all of that, but it's written and that's great and I think it's the best thing I've done and I think it's going to be really groundbreaking for pop music."
The 23-year-old singer thinks it is important for artists to "shake things up" from time to time and admits she has been incredibly inspired by some of her collaborators.
She added to MTV News: "I think it always needs a shake up and I think multiple artists do that but I want to push it.
"I've been collaborating with people from PC Music so that's been very inspiring for me - the way they think about music and the way that they create music and transferring that into like a more pop realm is something that is cool and yeah, it's next level! I'm not really saying too much about it right now because I just want it to talk for itself. And it will."