The Essential Cyndi Lauper is a compilation by American pop icon Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

. It was released as part of Sony BMG's The Essential series in 2003.

Five year after its initial release, Sony Music Entertainment Japan

Sony Music Entertainment Japan

is Sony's music arm in Japan. SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Corporation and independent from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry....

 reissued the album accompanied with bonus DVD which features four music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s. The expanded edition debuted at the number 29 on the Japan's Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

, and became her eighth top-40 charting albums in the country.

Original release (2003)

1. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun
   Girls Just Want to Have Fun
   Girls Just Want to Have Fun may refer to:In music:* "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", the first major single released by singer Cyndi Lauper on She's So UnusualIn film:...
   
   " (Robert Hazard
   Robert Hazard
   Robert Hazard Robert Hazard Robert Hazard (born Robert Rimato, (August 21, 1948 – August 5, 2008), was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, musician, probably best known for composing and recording the song "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", which Cyndi Lauper covered, turning the song into a...
   
   )
2. "Money Changes Everything
   Money Changes Everything
   "Money Changes Everything" is a song written by Tom Gray, frontman of The Brains, and was the band's only underground hit. It was recorded by Cyndi Lauper for her debut album, She's So Unusual and was released as a single in 1984, peaking at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100...
   
   " (Tom Gray
   Tom Gray
   Tom Gray is a bluegrass musician widely considered one of the best bass players in the genre. He is probably best known for his bass playing with The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene. In 1996, as a member of The Country Gentlemen, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall...
   
   )
3. "Who Let in the Rain
   Who Let In The Rain
   "Who Let in the Rain" is a single by Cyndi Lauper released in 1993.-Song information:The single was the first from the Hat Full of Stars album. It is a ballad about the end of a relationship that proved popular among Lauper's fans. Outside the United States, it was a modest hit peaking in the top...
   
   " (Cyndi Lauper, Allee Willis
   Allee Willis
   Allee Willis is an American songwriter, artist, set designer, multimedia artist, writer, collector and director.-Overview:...
   
   )
4. "She Bop
   She Bop
   "She Bop" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the third single from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after "Time After Time", and reached number...
   
   " (Lauper, Gary Corbett
   Gary Corbett
   Gary Corbett is a Grammy Award winning American keyboardist, composer and producer most famous for playing in the band Cinderella....
   
   , Rick Chertoff, Stephen Broughton Lunt)
5. "Time After Time
   Time after Time (Cyndi Lauper song)
   "Time After Time" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the second single from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984, and remained there for two weeks...
   
   " (Lauper, Rob Hyman
   Rob Hyman
   Robert Andrew "Rob" Hyman is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, accordion player, producer, arranger and recording studio owner, best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters.-Early life:Hyman started taking piano lessons at the age of four and grew up playing...
   
   )
6. "I Drove All Night
   I Drove All Night
   "I Drove All Night" is a song written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and made famous by Cyndi Lauper. The song was originally written for Roy Orbison, who recorded it in 1987, but his rendition was not released until 1992, after the song had become a top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic for...
   
   " (Billy Steinberg
   Billy Steinberg
   William Endfield "Billy" Steinberg is an American songwriter. He has achieved most of his success as part of a song writing team, most notably with Tom Kelly. He has also co-written several hit songs with Rick Nowels.-Biography:...
   
   , Tom Kelly)
7. "Hat Full of Stars" (Lauper, Nicky Holland)
8. "Change of Heart" (Lauper, Essra Mohawk)
9. "Sisters of Avalon
   Sisters of Avalon (song)
   "Sisters of Avalon" is a single from the 1997 album of the same name, by Cyndi Lauper.-Song information:The song is about sisterhood and it shows the power of women Lauper wanted to show through the song and the album as a whole...
   
   " (Lauper, Jan Pulsford)
10. "All Through the Night
    All Through the Night (Cyndi Lauper song)
    "All Through the Night" is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper from her debut album She's So Unusual. It was written by Jules Shear for his album Watch Dog, as a mid-tempo folk-rock song. After The Cars recorded their own version, which they did not use on any of their...
    
    " (Jules Shear
    Jules Shear
    Jules Mark Shear is a US singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Pittsburgh in 1952. Although he has had only one minor hit as a performer , he has recorded almost 20 albums to date...
    
    )
11. "When You Were Mine
    When You Were Mine
    "When You Were Mine" is a song written and released by Prince on his 1980 album, Dirty Mind. Though not released as a single, the song received a promotional 12" release...
    
    " (Prince
    Prince (musician)
    Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
    
    )
12. "True Colors
    True Colors (song)
    "True Colors" is a song written by songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, additional lyrics by Cyndi Lauper. It was both the title track and the first single released from Cyndi Lauper's second album. It was the only original song on the album that Lauper did not help write...
    
    " (Steinberg, Kelly)
13. "Unhook the Stars" (Lauper, Pulsford)
14. "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
    The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
    "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper. It was released as a single for The Goonies, a 1985 film which was released around the same time as the single...
    
    " (Lauper, Broughton Lunt, A. Stead)

Additional tracks on Japanese editions

• "Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)" (Lolly Vegas, Hazard)
• "Set Your Heart
  Set Your Heart
  "Set Your Heart" is a song written and produced by Cyndi Lauper and Richard Morel for Lauper's 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink. The song was released in early 2008 as a promo-only single in Japan, where it received considerable airplay....
  
  " (Victor Carstarphen, Lauper, Gene McFadden
  Gene McFadden
  Gene McFadden was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with John Whitehead.-Biography:McFadden met John Whitehead as a teenager...
  
  , Richard Morel
  Richard Morel
  Richard Morel is an American singer-songwriter, DJ, remixer and record producer from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively with Washington D.C.-based duo Deep Dish, co-writing, co-producing, performing and singing on many of their tracks, most notably on their albums Junk...
  
  , John Whitehead
  John Whitehead (singer)
  John Whitehead was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with Gene McFadden.McFadden and Whitehead wrote many hits for...
  
  )— 2008 reissue only

Bonus DVD on 2008 Japanese reissue

1. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (Hazard)
2. "Time After Time" (Lauper, Hyman)
3. "True Colors" (Steinberg, Kelly)
4. "I Drove All Night" (Steinberg, Kelly)

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
2004	Japanese Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... Albums Chart	210
2008		29