Joy (disambiguation)

Joy is an emotion in response to a pleasant observation or a remembrance thereof.

Joy or JOY may also refer to:

People and fictional characters

• Joy (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
• Joy (surname), a list of people
• Joy (singer) (born 1996), member of South Korean band Red Velvet
• Joy (model) (born 1985), Japanese model and TV personality
• Joy (Australian musician)
• Joy (Inside Out), protagonist of the Pixar franchise Inside Out

Places

United States

• Joy, Arkansas
• Joy, Illinois
• Joy, Kansas
• Joy, Kentucky
• Joy, Missouri
• Joy, Ohio
• Joy, Oklahoma
• Joy, Texas
• Joy, West Virginia
• Mount Joy, a small mountain in Valley Forge National Historical Park

Elsewhere

• Joy (crater), a lunar crater
• Joy Range, Nunavut, Canada
• Mount Joy, a small hill in Durham, England

Music

Bands

• Joy (Austrian band)
• Joy (South African band)

Albums

• Joy (Steven Curtis Chapman album), 2012
• Joy (Fefe Dobson album), and the title track
• Joy (Isaac Hayes album), 1973
• Joy (Jah Roots album), 2008
• Joy (Joy album), 1976
• Joy (Paul King album), 1987
• Joy (Shizuka Kudo album)
• Joy (Crystal Lewis album)
• Joy (Phish album), and the title track
• Joy (Psychic TV VHS), 1989
• Joy (Minutemen EP), 1989
• Joy (Skids album)
• Joy (The Stalin album), 1989
• Joy (Teddy Pendergrass album), 1988
• Joy (Woo!ah! EP), 2022
• Joy: A Christmas Collection, by the group Avalon
• Joy, an album by Yuki Isoya
• Joy, an album by Paper Aeroplanes
• Joy, album by Joe Nina, 1996

Songs

• "Joy" (Apollo 100 song), an instrumental from 1971
• "Joy", a song by Harry Nilsson on the album Son of Schmilsson released in 1972
• "Joy", a song by Gerry Niewood on the album Gerry Niewood & Timepiece released in 1977
• "Joy" (Band AKA song), 1983
• "Joy" (Marvin Gaye song), 1983
• "Joy" (Psychic TV song), 1988
• "Joy" (Teddy Pendergrass song), 1988
• "Joy" (François Feldman song), 1992
• "Joy" (Staxx song), 1993
• "Joy" (7669 song), 1994
• "Joy" (Blackstreet song), 1994
• "Joy" (Toni Pearen song), 1995
• "Joy", a single by Newsboys, 2000
• "Joy" (Mark Ryder song), 2000
• "Joy" (For King & Country song), 2018
• "Joy" (Bastille song), 2019
• "Joy" (Mick Jagger song)
• "Joy", a song by Against Me! on the album Searching for a Former Clarity
• "Joy", a song by Iron & Wine on the album Ghost on Ghost
• "Joy", a song by Jeremih and Chance the Rapper from Merry Christmas Lil' Mama
• "Joy", a song by Lucinda Williams on the album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
• "Joy", a song by Mclusky
• "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 Whitney Houston from The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album
• "Joy", a song by Yuki Isoya
• “Joy”, a song by Will Young taken from his sixth studio album released as the records second promotional single and was heavily featured in the Morrisons adverts.
• "Joy", a song by Withered Hand from Good News
• "Joy", a song by Post Malone from Austin
• "Joy", a song by Ben Rector from The Joy of Music
• "Joy", a song by the Lightning Seeds from Cloudcuckooland
• ”JOY” a song by Ellie Goulding from Halcyon

Literature

• Joy (Bernanos novel), a 1929 novel by Georges Bernanos
• Joy (Hunt novel), a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt
• Joy (novels), a series of novels by Joy Laurey
• Joy (magazine), an international women's magazine

Television and film

• Joy, a 2005 Israeli film. Hebrew title: Muchrachim Lehiyot Same'ach
• Joy (2010 film), a 2010 Dutch film
• Joy (2015 film), a 2015 American film starring Jennifer Lawrence
• Joy (2018 film), a 2018 Austrian film
• Joy (2024 film), a 2024 British film
• "Joy" (House), a 2008 television episode

Vehicles

Automobiles

• Chevrolet Onix, an American-Brazilian subcompact car, base model sold as Chevrolet Joy
• Daewoo Matiz, a South Korean city car, sold as Chevrolet Joy in Pakistan
• Daihatsu Cast, a Japanese city car, also sold as Toyota Pixis Joy

Watercraft

• USS Joy (SP-643), a patrol vessel of the United States Navy
• USS Turner Joy (DD-951), a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy, originally called USS Joy

Other uses

• Joy (dishwashing liquid)
• Joy (dog), an English Cocker Spaniel owned by Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
• Joy (musical), a 2022 stage musical
• Joy (perfume)
• Joy (programming language)
• Joy 94.9, a radio station
• Joy Compressor, a make of air and gas compressors
• Joy FC, a Lesotho football club
• Joy FM (disambiguation), a name used by many radio stations
• Cyclone Joy, struck Australia in late 1990
• Joy, the fictional euphoric drug in the video game We Happy Few

See also

• Joye
• Joys (shipwreck), a steamboat that sank in Lake Michigan
• The Joy (disambiguation)