The Essential Cyndi Lauper

The Essential Cyndi Lauper
Compilation album by Cyndi Lauper
Released	April 23, 2003
Length	59:47
Label	Epic Legacy
Producer	Cyndi Lauper Rick Chertoff Lennie Petze Mark Saunders Jan Pulsford
Cyndi Lauper chronology
Shine (2002) The Essential Cyndi Lauper (2003) The Great Cyndi Lauper (2003)
Alternative covers
2008 Japanese edition

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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.

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.

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

2003 track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
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"	Cyndi Lauper Allee Willis	Hat Full of Stars (1993)	4:37
4.	"She Bop"	Lauper Gary Corbett Rick Chertoff Stephen Broughton Lunt	She's So Unusual (1983)	3:48
5.	"Time After Time"	Lauper Rob Hyman	She's So Unusual (1983)	4:01
6.	"I Drove All Night"	Billy Steinberg Tom Kelly	A Night to Remember (1989)	4:12
7.	"Hat Full of Stars"	Lauper Nicky Holland	Hat Full of Stars (1993)	4:28
8.	"Change of Heart"	Lauper Essra Mohawk	True Colors (1986)	4:25
9.	"Sisters of Avalon"	Lauper Jan Pulsford	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"	Steinberg Kelly	True Colors	3:48
13.	"Unhook the Stars"	Lauper Pulsford	Sisters of Avalon (1996)	3:58
14.	"The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" (Single Version)	Lauper Lunt Arthur Stead	The Goonies: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1985); originally meant for True Colors (1986)	3:38
Total length:				59:47

2003 Japanese track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
15.	"Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)"	Lauper Lolly Vegas Hazard	Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some (1994)	3:53
Total length:				63:25

2007 Wal-Mart edition track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
15.	"Shine"	Lauper William Wittman	Shine (2004)	4:33
Total length:				64:20

2008 Japanese reissue track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
16.	"Set Your Heart"	Lauper Victor Carstarphen Gene McFadden Richard Morel John Whitehead	Bring Ya to the Brink (2008)	3:43
Total length:				63:30

2008 Japanese bonus DVD

No.	Title	Director	Length
1.	"Girls Just Want to Have Fun"	Edd Griles
2.	Untitled	Edd Griles
3.	"True Colors"	Patricia Birch
4.	"I Drove All Night"	Cyndi Lauper Scott Kalvert

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
2004	Japanese Oricon Albums Chart	210
2008		29

Certifications and sales

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)	Gold	50,000‡
United States	—	15,000
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.