Boyband One Direction are due to release their highly anticipated new album next month and have confirmed that followers will be able to hear a selection of tracks from it before it officially drops. 

'Midnight Memories' is due to be unveiled on November 25, but songs from the offering are due to be shared in the run up to the release date. The group shared a new video clip, in which they explained their plans. Irish heartthrob Niall Horan introduced the clip by saying: "We're so excited for you to hear 'Midnight Memories', this album is really special to us so we decided to do something a bit different with it.”

Singer Louis Tomlinson then added that by pre-ordering the track "Basically if you pre-order the album through iTunes now, then on the 28 of October you'll automatically get our next single 'Story Of My life.'"

Horan ended the video by telling Directioners: "If you pre-order Midnight Memories now, you'll have four exclusive tracks off the album before it's even released!"

One Direction, meanwhile, are set to perform on 'The X Factor' in the coming weeks and the exciting news was confirmed by the show this week.