Cyndi Lauper spends a second week in the top 10 of Billboard’s Soundtracks chart (dated June 22) with the companion album to her new documentary, Let the Canary Sing, which premiered June 4 on Paramount+. The set, at No. 8 after a week after it debuted at No. 7, earned 5,000 equivalent album units in the United States June 7-13, according to Luminate.
The collection includes Lauper’s eight Billboard Hot 100 top 10s, achieved in 1984-89, including her breakthrough classic “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and the No. 1s “Time After Time” and “True Colors.” It also features such deep cuts as 1993’s acclaimed “Sally’s Pigeons,” which she wrote with Mary Chapin Carpenter.
The set has brought Lauper to the top 10 of another Billboard tally. Here’s a look at her uncommon versatility, as reflected in the scope of top 10s – spanning over 40 years – that she’s notched on Billboard rankings.
Cyndi Lauper’s Top 10s on Billboard Charts:
Billboard 200: She’s So Unusual (No. 4, 1984), True Colors (No. 4, 1986)
Billboard Hot 100: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (No. 2, 1984), “Time After Time” (No. 1, two weeks, 1984), “She Bop” (No. 3), “All Through the Night” (No. 5), “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough” (No. 10, 1985), “True Colors” (No. 1, two weeks, 1986), “Change of Heart” (No. 3, 1987), “I Drove All Night” (No. 6, 1989)
Blues Albums: Memphis Blues (No. 1, 13 weeks, 2010)
Top Country Albums: Detour (No. 4, 2016)
Independent Albums: Memphis Blues (No. 2, 2010)
Indie Store Album Sales: Detour (No. 4, 2016)
Internet Albums: Memphis Blues (No. 10, 2010)
Soundtracks: Let the Canary Sing (No. 7, 2024)
Adult Contemporary: “Time After Time” (No. 1, three weeks, 1984), “All Through the Night” (No. 4), “True Colors” (No. 5, 1986)
Blues Digital Song Sales: “Crossroads,” feat. Jonny Lang (No. 1, one week, 2010)
Dance Club Songs: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (No. 1, one week, 1984), “She Bop” (No. 10), “Change of Heart” (No. 4, 1987), “Disco Inferno” (No. 8, 1999), “Walk On By” (No. 10, 2004), “Same Ol’ Story” (No. 1, one week, 2008), “Into the Nightlife” (No. 1, one week, 2008), “Sex Is in the Heel” (No. 6, 2012), “Time After Time (2014)” (No. 2, 2014)
Dance/Mix Show Airplay: “Into the Nightlife” (No. 5, 2008)
Mainstream Rock Airplay: “Time After Time” (No. 10, 1984)
Music Video Sales: To Memphis With Love (No. 9, 2011)
Lauper is set to kick off her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour Oct. 18 in Montreal. “I’d like to say ‘thank you’ and come up with things that people are gonna have fun and laugh with,” she recently told Variety. “Laughter is so important, and having a good time is important, because life gets hard, very hard, for people. So I want them [to] celebrate them, you know? Because we always used to have a good time together.”
Additional reporting by Keith Caulfield
