Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Cyndi Lauper

Charting Dec 17, 1983 → Oct 7, 1995 · 158 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 158 wk (4 crowns), UK Singles Chart 124 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Year: 1984

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
4 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jun 1984) · First crown Jun 1984
Global Music Power
5 crowns
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Longest reign 3 weeks (Oct–Nov 1986) · First crown Jun 1984

Billboard Hot 100 · 158 wk UK Singles Chart · 124 wk Global Music Power · 205 wk

Peak Power: 2.94%; week of Jun 23, 1984
Career Power: 278; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 143; February 1984 – January 1985
Peak Five Years: 253; September 1983 – August 1988
Top-five weeks: 24; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 158; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.57%; week of Oct 6, 1984
Comebacks: 2; Oct 1986 · Jul 1989

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Billboard Hot 100

14 records · 278 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Girls Just Want To Have FunApple Music	#2March 1984	25	December 1983 – June 1984	39.7	40.2
Time After TimeApple Music	#1June 1984	20	April 1984 – August 1984	38.3	38.9
She BopApple Music	#3September 1984	18	July 1984 – November 1984	34.9	35.4
True ColorsApple Music	#1October 1986	20	August 1986 – January 1987	31.0	31.1
All Through The NightApple Music	#5December 1984	19	October 1984 – February 1985	30.3	31.2
Change Of HeartApple Music	#3February 1987	17	November 1986 – March 1987	28.2	28.1
I Drove All NightApple Music	#6July 1989	15	May 1989 – August 1989	22.8	22.5
The Goonies `R' Good EnoughApple Music	#10July 1985	15	May 1985 – August 1985	20.0	19.7
What's Going OnApple Music	#12May 1987	13	March 1987 – June 1987	17.5	17.5
Money Changes EverythingApple Music	#27February 1985	13	December 1984 – March 1985	9.4	10.1
Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)	#54July 1988	8	July 1988 – August 1988	2.8	2.8
My First Night Without YouApple Music	#62August 1989	6	August 1989 – September 1989	1.6	1.6
Boy BlueApple Music	#71June 1987	4	June 1987 – July 1987	1.0	1.0
Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)Apple Music	#87September 1995	5	September 1995 – October 1995	0.8	0.8

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At their peak

1984 in music →

Cyndi Lauper's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1984 to January 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.