Guns N' Roses long-awaited album 'Chinese Democracy' will be released on November 23rd, according to US reports.

The album, which has been fourteen years in the making, will be available exclusively in Best Buy stores in the US.

The release date, a Sunday instead of the usual Tuesday, is specifically designed to target the American Thanksgiving market and means the album won't chart until December 1st at the earliest.

Billboard magazine claim the band's 1987 debut album 'Appetite for Destruction' will also be re-released at the end of this month.

As previously reported, one of the album's tracks 'If The World' is currently appearing in the credits to the movie Body of Lies, which stars Leonard DiCaprio.

Another, 'Shackler's Revenge', will make its debut on the video game Rock Band 2.

In June, six tracks, purported to be finished edits, appeared on an internet blog

27-year-old Kevin Cogill, who uploaded the tracks, was arrested in August on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws.

Earlier this year, drinks company Dr Pepper promised each American citizen a free drink if the band released the album before the end of 2008.

(by Jason Gregory)