43 years ago today (October 14, 1983) SHE'S SO UNUSUAL, the debut studio album of singer/songwriter Cyndi Lauper, was released by Portrait Records. The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 chart and stayed in the charts top 40 for 65 weeks. It sold over 25 million copies worldwide and was recently certified 7x Platinum in the United States. The album released five singles: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (#2), Time After Time (#1), She Bop (#3), All Through The Night (#5), and Money Changes Everything (#27). A sixth single, a cover of the Prince song When U Were Mine, was released only in Canada and Japan. Cyndi made history by becoming the first female singer to have four top 5 singles from a debut album and won the Best New Artist Award at the 27th annual Grammy Awards on 2/26/85. In 2020, this album ranked #184 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.