Joy

Joy may refer to:

• Happiness, an emotion
• Joy (given name), people with the given name or surname Joy

Music

Bands & performers

• Joy (band)
• Joy (South African Group)

Albums

• Joy (Fefe Dobson album); also the title track from that album
• Joy (Phish album); also the title track from that album
• Joy (Paul King album)
• Joy (EP), by the Minutemen
• Joy (The Skids album)
• Joy (Stalin album)
• Joy, an album by Isaac Hayes
• Joy, an album by Yuki Isoya
• Joy: A Christmas Collection, by the group Avalon

Songs

• "Joy" (song), by François Feldman
• "Joy" (7669 song), song by R&B group 7669
• "Joy", a song by Against Me! on the album Searching for a Former Clarity
• "Joy", a song by Whitney Houston from The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album
• "Joy", a song by Yuki Isoya
• "Joy", a song by mclusky
• "Joy", a song by Harry Nilsson on the album Son of Schmilsson released in 1972
• "Joy", a song by Mick Jagger on the album Goddess in the Doorway
• "Joy", a 2000 single by Newsboys
• "Joy", a 1988 song by Teddy Pendergrass
• "Joy", a 1995 single by Toni Pearen from the album Intimate
• "Joy", a song by Soul II Soul on the album Just Right Vol. III
• "Joy", a song by VNV Nation on the album Praise the Fallen
• "Joy", a song by Lucinda Williams on the album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
• "Joy" (Psychic TV single)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is the title of the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
  • "Joy", an arrangement of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" performed by Apollo 100
• Ode to Joy, an ode written by Friedrich Schiller and set to music in the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Record label

• Joy Records

See also

• "Joy to the World" is a popular Christmas carol

Literature

• Joy (novel), a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt
• Joy (novels), a series of novels by Joy Laurey
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (novel), a novel / partial autobiography by C.S. Lewis

Television

• "Joy" (House), a television episode
• Joy Turner, fictional character on the US sitcom My Name is Earl
• Nurse Joy, several characters in the Pokémon series

Places

• Joy, Illinois, United States
• Joy, Oklahoma, United States
• Joy Range, Nunavut, Canada
• Mount Joy, the name of several places

Other uses

• Joy (dishwashing liquid)
• Joy (programming language)
• Joy 94.9, a radio station
• USS Joy, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
• USS Turner Joy (DD-951), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1959 to 1982
• Joy Compressor
• Joy (perfume)