Album · Cyndi Lauper
True Colors by Cyndi Lauper
True Colors is an album by Cyndi Lauper, released in 1986. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “True Colors”, on 7 lists with a best position of #11.
True Colors, Cyndi Lauper's second album, came out on Portrait on September 15, 1986, and it had the unenviable job of following She's So Unusual, the 1983 debut that turned her into a technicolor pop star. Lauper co-produced it with Lennie Petze, and she used it to show there was more to her than eccentric clothes and a rainbow of hair colors. The title track is the tell: a hushed, tender ballad where that four-octave voice holds back instead of hollering, and it hits all the harder for it.
Elsewhere she's still up for a romp, with "Change of Heart" bouncing along on pure pop muscle. That song, the title track and "What's Going On" all went top 20 on the Hot 100, the first two into the top five. The album climbed to number four on the Billboard 200, earned two Grammy nominations and has sold around seven million copies worldwide, making it her second-biggest seller.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from True Colors on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True Colors | 7 | #11 | – | 1986–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.