"The Show"
Single by Girls Aloud
from the album What Will the Neighbours Say?
Released28 June 2004
GenreElectropop
Length3:36
LabelPolydor
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Brian Higgins
  • Xenomania
Girls Aloud singles chronology
"Jump"
(2003)
"The Show"
(2004)
"Love Machine"
(2004)
Music video
"The Show" on YouTube

"The Show" is a song by English girl group Girls Aloud from their second studio album, What Will the Neighbours Say? (2004).

Critical reception

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Dotmusic's Adam Webb gave the song a rating of five out of ten, calling it "a great cheesy lump of Europop riffery".[1] David Welsh of musicOMH dismissed it as "old ground in every sense".[2]

Chart performance

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In July 2004, "The Show" entered the UK Singles Chart at number two, becoming Girls Aloud's fifth consecutive top-three single in the UK.[3] It was kept off the top spot by Usher's "Burn" which debuted with over 20,000 more sales than "The Show".[4] The song charted for 10 weeks and placed at number 76 in the 2004 year-end chart.[5][6] According to the Official Charts Company, it has sold 136,000 units in the UK.[4]

In Ireland, "The Show" peaked at number five on the Irish Singles Chart in its third week,[7] and spent 11 weeks on the chart.[8] In Scotland, it became the group's second chart topper, outselling Britney Spears' "Everytime" by 11 copies.[9] Following a 2006 release in Australia, "The Show" entered the ARIA Charts at number 67.[10]

References

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Citations

  1. ^ Webb, Adam (5 July 2004). "Girls Aloud - The Show". Dotmusic. Archived from the original on 9 July 2004. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  2. ^ Welsh, David (28 June 2004). "single reviews | Girls Aloud - The Show". musicOMH. Archived from the original on 19 July 2004. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  3. ^ "The official UK singles chart" (PDF). Music Week. 10 July 2004. p. 28.
  4. ^ a b Copsey, Rob (5 August 2021). "Official Chart Flashback 2004: Usher's Burn beats Girls Aloud's The Show to Number 1". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  5. ^ "The Show – Girls Aloud". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  6. ^ "2004 Singles Top 100" (PDF). Music Week. 22 January 2005. p. 19. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Top 50 singles, week ending 15 July 2004". Irish Recorded Music Association. 15 July 2004. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
  8. ^ "Discography Girls Aloud". irish-charts.com. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  9. ^ "Datafile: Scottish Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 10 July 2004. p. 19.
  10. ^ "Week Commencing ~ 12th June 2006 ~ Issue #849" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. 12 June 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-06-19. Retrieved 26 September 2012.

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