[3] "It became very clear that the tracks were being written around us, for us, and they were feeding off us," Kim Appleby said of the creative process with Stock Aitken Waterman after "System" was replaced by "Showing Out".

[4] The synthesised male voice performing middle 8 bridge section of "Showing Out" was revealed to be Mike Stock by Kim Appleby, during a series she presented with Midge Ure for BBC Four called, Smashing Hits!

In a review published in Record Mirror, James Hamilton complimented "the tightly chanted "house"-tempoed 0-119+3⁄4 bpm topside [which] has a catchy "get fresh at the week-end" hookline".

[5] Retrospectively, in 2021, British magazine Classic Pop ranked "Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)" at number three on their list of the "Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman Songs".

However, it peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart in November 1986 and was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales exceeding 250,000 copies.