On this day, courtesy of History.com:

“A 16-year-old aspiring pop star named Tiffany Darwish had a self-titled debut album on a major record label that was gathering dust on record store shelves around the country. What transformed Tiffany the album into a quadruple-Platinum smash hit and Tiffany the singer from a flop into a pop idol was a brilliant and highly unorthodox marketing strategy put into effect on this day in 1987, when young Ms. Darwish launched a career-making tour of America’s shopping malls with a live performance in Paramus Park Mall in Paramus, New Jersey.”

Tiffany, just in case you forgot or are too young to remember …

This map, created with FactLook.com, and using data from American Fact Finder, displays the value of sales, shipments, receipts, revenue, or business done ($1,000) for shopping malls in select counties in New Jersey. We added a layer with a red border to better highlight the state’s boundaries. And dropped a pink pin at 700 Paramus Park in Paramus, NJ, site of the Paramus Mall and Tiffany’s historic performance.