1D play down Justin Bieber chart battle: 'It's not a win/lose thing'

One Direction insist they aren't competing against Justin Bieber with their new album.

The group are releasing their fifth record 'Made in the A.M.' on November 13.

However, this is the same date Bieber is unleashing his latest effort 'Purpose'.

This has naturally coined talk of a chart battle - but it's something Niall Horan and Harry Styles aren't being drawn into.

The Irishman told Coup de Main: "We just happen to be releasing our albums on the same day. It's happened to us before; our first couple of albums were released on the same day as Rihanna.

"I think the press have just made a bit of a deal out of it because it's us and Justin Bieber. It's fine. You know you're gonna be up against someone in the charts - it just happens that we have fallen on the same day."

Styles added: "I don't think anyone makes a record with competing with someone else in mind. I think then you don't make it for the right reasons.

"I think we made the record - we're very, very happy with it, we're very proud of it - and now we're putting it out, and it happens to be on the same day as someone else, and that's it. It's not a win/lose thing - it's, we hope that our fans like it, and if it does well that would be amazing, but that's not ultimately what it's about."

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