The singer will release The Fire in the UK on October 29 and hopes the collection will help him escape the shadow of One Direction's success.
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Asked by The Sun if he feels pressure to bring new material out, Cardle replied: "Absolutely. What's happening with One Direction, I need to crawl out of their shadow.
"After The X Factor, people put words in my mouth but I'm very grateful for the show and what it's done for me and, yeah, I'm Matt Cardle from The X Factor and I will be for a good five or six years.
"Will Young's shaking it off but that's been a decade. Yet when the new X Factor ad came on, the only people left off were me, Shayne Ward and Steve Brookstein. But I had a platinum album and sell-out tour."
Watch the music video for Matt Cardle's new single 'It's Only Love' below:
