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Cyndi Lauper
Solo artist Brooklyn United States
Cyndi Lauper is an artist from Brooklyn. Cyndi Lauper has 38 chart appearances on 21 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 1983–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Time After Time”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted Cyndi Lauper most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1984.
Cyndi Lauper, a Brooklyn girl born in 1953, spent the end of the '70s singing with Blue Angel before going it alone, and when She's So Unusual landed in 1983 it was obvious that nobody else in pop looked, dressed or sounded quite like her. The thrift-shop wardrobe and the ever-changing hair were only the wrapping; the gift inside was a four-octave voice that could hiccup, squeal and then break your heart in the same verse.
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a fizzing, bratty party of a single, and its video took Best Female Video at the very first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. "Time After Time" is the flip side, a tender, tick-tock ballad that sticks for good, and "She Bop" is a cheeky wink of a dance number. The album made her the first woman to land four top-five Billboard Hot 100 hits off a debut, and the Grammys named her Best New Artist in 1985.
True Colors in 1986 had a hushed, bruised title track, and "I Drove All Night" followed in 1989. Much later she wrote the score for the Broadway musical Kinky Boots and won the Tony for it in 2013, and in November 2025 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally let her in.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cyndi Lauper on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time After Time | 11 | #9 | – | – | |
| 2 | Girls Just Want To Have Fun | 13 | #4 | – | 1984 | |
| 3 | True Colors | 7 | #11 | – | 1986 | |
| 4 | When You Were Mine | 1 | #290 | – | – | |
| 5 | I Drove All Night | 1 | #302 | – | – | |
| 6 | She Bop | 2 | #81 | – | 1984 | |
| 7 | Early In The Morning | 1 | #80 | – | 2010 | |
| 8 | Money Changes Everything | 1 | #785 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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