The Essential Cyndi Lauper
2003 compilation album by Cyndi Lauper
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The Essential Cyndi Lauper is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released as part of Sony BMG's The Essential series. It was released on April 23, 2003, via Epic Records and Legacy Recordings.
- Cyndi Lauper
- Rick Chertoff
- Lennie Petze
- Mark Saunders
- Jan Pulsford
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| Released | April 23, 2003 | |||
| Length | 59:47 | |||
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 2008 Japanese edition[1] | ||||
The compilation comprises 14 of Lauper's songs including her non-album 1985 single "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" that is part of The Goonies: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1985). As of 2012, the compilation has sold 15,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.[3]
Five years after its initial release, Sony Music Entertainment Japan reissued the album accompanied with bonus DVD which features four music videos. The expanded edition debuted at number 29 on the Japan's Oricon, and became Lauper's eighth top-40 charting album in the country.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" | Robert Hazard | She's So Unusual (1983) | 3:55 |
| 2. | "Money Changes Everything" | Tom Gray | She's So Unusual (1983) | 5:03 |
| 3. | "Who Let in the Rain" |
| Hat Full of Stars (1993) | 4:37 |
| 4. | "She Bop" | She's So Unusual (1983) | 3:48 | |
| 5. | "Time After Time" |
| She's So Unusual (1983) | 4:01 |
| 6. | "I Drove All Night" | A Night to Remember (1989) | 4:12 | |
| 7. | "Hat Full of Stars" |
| Hat Full of Stars (1993) | 4:28 |
| 8. | "Change of Heart" |
| True Colors (1986) | 4:25 |
| 9. | "Sisters of Avalon" |
| Sisters of Avalon (1996) | 4:22 |
| 10. | "All Through the Night" | Jules Shear | She's So Unusual (1983) | 4:29 |
| 11. | "When You Were Mine" | Prince | She's So Unusual (1983) | 5:03 |
| 12. | "True Colors" |
| True Colors | 3:48 |
| 13. | "Unhook the Stars" |
| Sisters of Avalon (1996) | 3:58 |
| 14. | "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" (Single Version) |
| The Goonies: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1985); originally meant for True Colors (1986) | 3:38 |
| Total length: | 59:47 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 15. | "Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)" |
| Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some (1994) | 3:53 |
| Total length: | 63:25 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 16. | "Set Your Heart" |
| Bring Ya to the Brink (2008) | 3:43 |
| Total length: | 63:30 | |||
| No. | Title | Director | Length |
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| 1. | "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" | Edd Griles | |
| 2. | Untitled | Edd Griles | |
| 3. | "True Colors" | Patricia Birch | |
| 4. | "I Drove All Night" |
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Chart positions
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 2004 | Japanese Oricon Albums Chart | 210 |
| 2008 | 29 | |
Certifications and sales
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[4] | Gold | 50,000‡ |
| United States | — | 15,000[5] |
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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
