Editing She's So Unusual (section)

== Commercial performance ==
The album has sold over 16 million copies worldwide.<ref name="SSU SalesII">{{cite news|last=Varga|first=George|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sdut-cyndi-lauper-still-proudly-unusual-2013jun07-story.html|title=Cyndi Lauper still proudly 'unusual'|newspaper=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]|date=June 7, 2013|access-date=November 29, 2021}}</ref>

=== North America ===
==== United States ====
''She's So Unusual'' debuted on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart in the week dated December 24, 1983 at no. 193.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=December 24, 1983|title=Top LPs & Tape|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1983/BB-1983-12-24.pdf|page=92}}</ref> The album reached the Top 10 by the end of March 1984 in its 15th week on the chart.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=March 31, 1984|title=Top LPs & Tape|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1984/BB-1984-03-31.pdf|page=59}}</ref> It achieved a peak position of no. 4 on the chart dated June 2, 1984, after having stayed on the ''Billboard'' 200 for 24 weeks up to that point.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=June 2, 1984|title=Top LPs & Tape|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1984/BB-1984-06-02.pdf|page=63}}</ref> Overall, the album stayed 77 weeks on the ''Billboard'' 200. It became one of the best-selling albums of 1984. ''She's So Unusual'' has since sold over seven million copies in the United States, where it was certified seven times platinum by the RIAA.<ref name="RIAA2"/>

==== Canada ====
At least until 1986, the album was the second best-selling album in Canada by a female artist during the decade, behind [[Whitney Houston]]'s [[Whitney Houston (album)|self-titled debut studio album]], selling more than 900,000 copies.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=LaPointe|first=Kirk|author-link=Kirk LaPointe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA78|title=Houston Likely to Outsell Lauper|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|location=New York|volume=98|issue=52|date=December 27, 1986|access-date=November 5, 2010|page=78}}</ref>

=== Asia ===
In Japan, the album debuted at no. 14 on the albums chart in the week dated March 26, 1984.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=March 31, 1984|title=Hits of the World|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1984/BB-1984-03-31.pdf|page=53}}</ref> It reached its peak position of no. 5 just over a month later in the week dated April 30, 1984.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=March 31, 1984|title=Hits of the World|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1984/BB-1984-05-05.pdf|page=64}}</ref>

=== Oceania ===
''She's So Unusual'' entered the Australian albums chart in the week dated May 28, 1984 at no. 12.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=June 2, 1984|title=Hits of the World|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1984/BB-1984-06-02.pdf|page=55}}</ref> It went to peak in the top three of the albums chart.