Staxx of Joy were a British house music studio project assembled by producers Simon Thorne and Tom Jones. In the mid-1990s, they had four top 10 hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, two of which reached number one: "Joy" and "You".[1] Both of these tracks, and a third single, "Shout", featured vocals by Carol Leeming. The songs are officially credited to Staxx of Joy featuring Carol Leeming.
A fourth top 10 dance hit, "Temptation", was credited to Staxx.
Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||
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UK [2] | AUS [3] | NED [4] | SWI [5] | US Dance [6] | |||||||||
"Joy" | 1993 | 25 | 90 | 33 | 30 | 1 | rowspan="5" | ||||||
"You" | 1995 | 50 | — | — | — | 1 | |||||||
"Shout" | 1996 | 125 | — | — | — | 8 | |||||||
"Joy '97" | 1997 | 14 | 58 | — | — | — | |||||||
"Temptation" | 1998 | 84 | — | — | — | 3 | |||||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. |
. Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 245.