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

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

Chart performance
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. It was kept off the top spot by Usher's "Burn" which debuted with over 20,000 more sales than "The Show". The song charted for 10 weeks and placed at number 76 in the 2004 year-end chart. According to the Official Charts Company, it has sold 136,000 units in the UK.

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