"The Show" is the debut single by Australian singer/songwriter Lenka

Lenka

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 that was released in December 2008 - June 2009. The song is featured on her eponymous debut album Lenka

Lenka (album)

Lenka is the self-titled debut album of pop recording artist Lenka. It was released 23 September 2008 through Epic Records. This is Lenka's first solo album after having been a member of the group Decoder Ring...

, released in 2008. The single was successful in Vietnam, where it peaked as #1 in Radio Vietnam. It was featured as the soundtrack for an Old Navy

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 commercial as well as an Ugly Betty

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promo, the film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

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, the 2009 Spring Campaign of the Polish TV station TVN

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, a commercial for a Malaysian telecommunications company called TM

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 in 2009, and was promoted as an iTunes

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 Free Single of the Week. Samples from the song are featured on DFS

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Sofa commercials in the UK

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. The song was also covered in the movie, Moneyball

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, by Kerris Dorsey and can be seen in its track listing on iTunes.

Track listing

1. The Show (Album Version) — 3:55
2. Gravity Rides Everything (The Woodstock Sessions) — 3:49

Music video

The music video has Lenka sitting on a bench in a park singing her song and picking petals off a flower. She then flies to the next scene, where she is riding a bus and looking at the other people, including an old lady and a man who she notices is staring at her. She then flies to a photo shop, where she looks at a picture with her friends. There is also a scene in which she plays tennis without ever hitting the ball. The next scene is when she is riding a bicycle with grocery items. While she is riding the bike, she notices that people are dancing while she sings the second verse. Then she flies to a concert, where she sings the chorus and flies off to a restaurant, where she and the man in the bus are eating. The man notices that Lenka's food was sliced by an unseen object. She then goes to her house, in which her toothbrush brushes her teeth without her holding it, and slowly goes to bed. She then finishes by watching the TV, and then turning the lights out.

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	65
U.S. Billboard Adult Pop Songs	25
Chart (2009)	Peak position
Austria Singles Chart	13
Belgium Ultratip Singles Chart	4
Czech Republic Singles Chart	35
European Hot 100	49
German Singles Chart	23
Japan Hot 100 Japan Hot 100 The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....	24
Polish Singles Chart	1
Swiss Singles Chart	21
UK Singles Chart	22

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	6 September 2008	Epic Records Epic Records Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	88697412892
	17 November 2008		CD single CD single A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...