“Stole the Show” is a single from Kygo’s debut album. It uses a show at a theatre as a metaphor for a great relationship ending.

Vocalist Parson James wrote the original version of the song. He described the concept in an interview with V:

Everyone was begging me to write a ballad, and I was not trying to write one because I didn’t think I had been in love before… it was about this guy that I was not in a relationship with, and pretended like we were. We would just be with each other when it was convenient. “Stole the Show” is sort of that thing like, Okay, we don’t hate each other, it’s fine, but this is going nowhere. We’ve put on a good act, but I think it’s time for us to close the curtains.

When Kygo’s manager played him the track, he loved it and reached out to James via social media. According to James in an interview with Billboard, he was reluctant to collaborate because he “was so attached to the song.” He then said that after listening to Kygo’s remix of Martin Gaye’s Sexual Healing, he “fell in love with what he [kygo] was doing.”
Kygo gave the track a tropical house treatment and it became a major success for himself and James, who was soon signed to RCA due in part to the success of this song. He re-released the original version of the song later that year.

On March 23rd, the music video debuted for the YouTube Music Awards 2015. It features two aliens reuniting with each other at a party as the government comes after them.