The US coffee chain Starbucks has banned the sale of Bruce Springsteen’s new album over concerns about its explicit content.

The album ‘Devils and Dust’ has made it to number one in the album charts in both America and the UK and is his first album to carry an advisory label.

A song on the album ‘Reno’ describes a sexual encounter with a prostitute.

Ken Lombard, President of Starbucks Entertainment has said the main reasoning to bar the album was one of scheduling; Starbucks would be promoting a new release by female rock band Antigone Rising.

Lombard said to the BBC: "We have great respect for Bruce Springsteen and for Sony. We're confident that we'll all have the opportunity to work together in the future."

The coffee shop chain has proven its influence over albums sales in the US, responsible for selling a quarter of all sales of the Ray Charles album ‘Genius Loves Company’.