| "The Only Way Is Up" | |
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| Single by Otis Clay | |
| from the album The Only Way Is Up | |
| B-side | "Special Kind of Love" |
| Released | 1980 |
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| Length | 3:46 |
| Label | Echo |
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"The Only Way Is Up" is a song written by George Jackson and Johnny Henderson and originally released in 1980 as a single by American soul singer Otis Clay. In 1988, it became a chart-topping single in the United Kingdom for Yazz and the Plastic Population. The song is used as the theme tune to the popular ITV2/ITVBe reality television series The Only Way Is Essex.