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Matt Cardle has admitted he is unhappy that several X Factor finalists have released new material before him

The winner, who releases his single 'Run For Your Life' on October 10, confessed his annoyance that Cher Lloyd and One Direction have topped the charts with 'Swagger Jagger' and 'What Makes You Beautiful' respectively.

"They're competition and it is s**t they got to release before the winner of the actual show," Cardle told the Sunday Mirror. "It's also worrying me that if One Direction decide to get slicker and go for more of an older market, then I'm stuffed too.

"It shouldn't have happened really. Simon's naughty. I just hope I'll be able to cement myself into the charts before that happens. Otherwise I'll be fuming. I can't win unless I have an album that does the talking, and I think it does.

"If I had my album *finished by the time Cher Lloyd and One Direction got their tracks in the charts then I would have been really bothered. But the truth is I wasn't finished. Simon let me go away and co-write the album and work on this as a long-term *project."

Cardle, who recently admitted to taking a gun to school when he was younger, added that he is "desperate" to shake off the X Factor tag but insisted that he wouldn't want to knock the show, saying: "Now it's time to move on and just be me."

Cardle's debut album *Letters is released on October 17.