Battle of the princes of pop - Justin Bieber vs One Direction

Their new albums were released on the same day

Published 13th Nov 2015

It's the battle of pop as One Direction and Justin Bieber have both released new albums.

It's Bieber's comeback album whereas it's the opposite for One Direction. As the boyband take a break - apparently for two years - we're expecting this to be the last album for a while.

The next question is who will sell more albums? We've been looking at how the musicians compare.

Meet Prince Justin - aka The Raging Bull

On one side we've Bieber who's been in the press a lot recently for his diva style tantrums. From storming off a stage in Norway to telling his fans they're not clapping in time, there's not been a quiet moment.

Working in his favour is that he had famous faces promoting his album with him, like Zoolander's Ben Stiller.

He then called it a 'strategy' that two of them would have an album released on the same day but insisted his was scheduled first.

"Whatever, it's going to be fun, I'm excited to see what happens" he added.

That definitely sounds like a bit of a threat.

The One Direction princes - aka The Cool Cats.

It's rumoured the boys watched the snapchat, thought it was funny and apparently weren't offended at all. Maybe it's actually all friendly competition... or maybe they're quietly confident?

Watch Louis Tomlinson respond to Justin Bieber below.

Whereas the hype with Bieber is that he's back - the boys have the advantage that they're going away.

With fans panicking that the band might break up (despite reassurances) fans will probably be extra desperate to get the album as they won't hear from the boys for a while.

Though maybe there's a benefit to sharing a release date? Niall Horan apparently said the joint date is good for pop culture and that there's been no fighting at all. Again, playing it cool.

Plus working in their favour is the Twitter competition that allows users to tweet 1D emojis - allowing their fans across the world to spread word of the One Direction kingdom.

Both have a huge army of fans and even experts are unsure who'll come out on top.

Only time will tell...

Purpose and Made in the A.M are out now.