NIALL HORAN REVEALS WHAT HE REALLY THINKS ABOUT 1D AND JUSTIN BIEBER'S ALBUM CHART BATTLE 

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One Direction and Justin Bieber have been throwing some banter back and forth over the fact their releasing their respective new albums Made in the A.M. and Purpose on the same day lately; and now Niall Horan\'s WADED ON on the situation.

Yup - Friday November 13th\'s gonna be a bloody good day as 1D and JB both release their highly anticipated new records; but you can kinda tell the inevitable chart battle\'s got \'em both going a bit. After some Snapchat taunting and Justin\'s reasoning that the One Direction fellas are doing it for \'publicity;\' Nialler reckons a bit of competition can only be \'good\' for \'pop culture.\'

Chatting about the whole debacle, Niall told Clyde 1 Radio: "It\'s gonna be a good little battle, it\'s good for pop culture." Meanwhile Louis Tomlinson insisted *that* Snapchat response to el Biebo was just a bit of a piss take, adding: "We mocked him back. It\'s all just a bit of a laugh and a joke. Let\'s have it."

Let\'s have it indeed, Tommo. We\'ve already thought of some ways y\'all can sort this out and pledged our allegiance with these handy posters. WE\'RE READY.

This all comes after Justin claimed the simultaneous album release was \'strategy\' on 1D\'s part, telling The Edge: "I\'m not really going on the road much, but we\'re talking about them right now so it gives them some promo, right? That\'s probably why they did it. I think it was strategy on their part, \'cos my release date was first. It\'s whatever, it\'s gonna be fun.

"I\'m excited to see what happens. I think [the title will be revealed] in the next couple of weeks."

What d\'ya make of that then? Ooh, who\'s gonna hit number 1 and where? Give us a tweet over @sugarscape or drop a little comment in the box below, please and a-thank you.

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