Britney Spears has said she will "never return to the music industry" after rumors she was planning a return to the studio surfaced last week.

Axar.az reports that the pop star was responding to claims in the US media that she was lining up songwriters for a 10th studio album.

"Just so we're clear most of the news is trash!!!" the singer wrote on Instagram.

"They keep saying I'm turning to random people to do a new album … I will never return to the music industry!!!"

Some outlets had suggested that Julia Michaels and Charlie XCX had been tapped up as collaborators.

But Spears added that she only wrote music for fun and also revealed that she had written more than 20 songs for other people over the past two years.

"I'm a ghostwriter and I honestly enjoy it that way!!!" wrote the singer, known for hits including Baby One More Time, Oops!... I Did It Again and Toxic.