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One Word

2005 single by Kelly Osbourne

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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"One Word" is a song by the English singer Kelly Osbourne, released as the only single from her second studio album, Sleeping in the Nothing (2005), on 9 May 2005. Unlike the pop-punk sound Osbourne sported in the past, "One Word" is a synth-pop song that showed Osbourne embracing dance music. The chorus melody samples the song "Fade to Grey" (1980) by British new wave pop band Visage. Charting in ten countries, the single debuted and peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart, and at number one on the UK Independent Singles Chart. To date it is Osbourne's last single release.

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“One Word” enters the record as 2005 single by Kelly Osbourne. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Word, single and Kelly can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Word, single and Kelly.
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This entry incorporates text from “One Word” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.