| Artist: | Joy Denalane |
| Studio: | 6 |
| Live: | 2 |
| Singles: | 17 |
German recording artist Joy Denalane has released six studio albums, two live albums and more than two dozen singles. Denalane scored her first chart entry in 1999, when she was featured on hip hop group Freundeskreis's single "Mit dir", a duet with future husband Max Herre, that became a top ten hit in Germany. Its success led to a recording deal with the Four Music label, which released her debut album Mamani in 2001. A soul album with elements of neo soul, jazz, and afro pop, it reached number eight on the German Albums Chart and earned a gold certification from the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI). It produced five singles and spawned the live album Mamani Live, which was released in 2004.
Following a longer hiatus in which she recorded collaborations with others musicians such as Herre, Afrob, and Common, Denalane released her second album Born & Raised in 2006. A breakaway form her previous album, it was entirely recorded in English language and took Denalane's work further into the rhythm and blues and hip hop genres. Upon its released, it debuted at number two in Germany and at number five on the Swiss Albums Chart. Both, the album and its lead single "Let Go", the latter of which entered the top thirty on the German Singles Chart, remain her highest-charting solo releases to date. In 2017, it reached Gold status in Germany.
Maureen, Denalane's first German-language album since Mamani, was released in 2011. It reached the top ten and top twenty in Germany and Switzerland respectively, but failed to produce a charting single. An English language version of the album was issued in 2012. In 2014, she became part of the German Band Aid 30 project; their rendition of which "Do They Know It's Christmas?" reached number-one on the German Singles Chart. In 2015, she released "Keine Religion", the theme song of the romantic comedy Traumfrauen (2015) as a single. It was followed by her fourth studio album Gleisdreieck, released in March 2017, which became her fourth top ten album in Germany, reaching number eight.
Following another hiatus, Denalane signed with Motown Records to released her fifth studio album Let Yourself Be Loved in 2020. Produced by Roberto Di Gioia, it marked the first project by a German artist to be released by the label as well as her third English language album. Let Yourself Be Loved debuted and peaked at number five on the German Albums Chart, becoming her highest-charting album in 14 years. In 2023, Lesedi Records released Willpower, Denalane's sixth studio album. Taking her work further into late 1970s-R&B,<ref name="wdr">Web site: Willpower – Retro-Soul zu Ehren von Papa. KaMühlenbrock use. Marc . wdr.de. German. May 20, 2024. October 9, 2023. it was produced by Di Gioia and Herre and marked her lowest-charting album yet, when it debuted and peaked at number 33 on the German Album Chart. Alles Liebe, a collaborative album with husband Max Herre, is expected to be released on November 1, 2024.
| Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [1] | AUT [2] | SWI [3] | ||||
| Mamani |
| 8 | 44 | 54 | ||
| Born & Raised |
| 2 | 42 | 5 |
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| Maureen |
| 8 | 36 | 11 | ||
| Gleisdreieck |
| 8 | 36 | 25 | ||
| Let Yourself Be Loved |
| 5 | — | 22 | ||
| Willpower |
| 33 | — | — | ||
| Alles Liebe[5] (with Max Herre) |
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| Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | AUT | SWI | ||||||||||
| Mamani Live |
| 44 | — | — | ||||||||
| The Dresden Soul Symphony (with Bilal, Dwele, Tweet, and MDR Symphony Orchestra) |
| — | — | — | ||||||||
| Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [6] | AUT | SWI | |||
| "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" (featuring Scorpio) | 1999 | — | — | — | rowspan="2" |
| "Time Heals the Pain" | — | — | — | ||
| "Sag's Mir" | 2001 | — | — | — | Mamani |
| "Geh Jetzt" | 2002 | 64 | — | — | |
| "Was Auch Immer" | 86 | — | — | ||
| "Im Ghetto von Soweto" | 2003 | — | — | — | |
| "Kinderlied" | — | — | — | ||
| "Höchste Zeit" | 2004 | — | — | — | Mamani Live |
| "Let Go" | 2006 | 26 | — | 46 | Born & Raised |
| "Heaven or Hell" (featuring Raekwon) | — | — | — | ||
| "Sometimes Love" | 2007 | — | — | — | |
| "Change" (featuring Lupe Fiasco) | — | — | — | ||
| "Niemand (Was wir nicht tun)" | 2011 | — | — | — | Maureen |
| "Nie wieder, nie mehr" (featuring Julian Williams) | 2012 | — | — | — | |
| "Keine Religion" | 2015 | 97 | — | — | Traumfrauen soundtrack |
| "Alles leuchtet"[7] | 2017 | — | — | — | Gleisdreieck |
| "Wieder Kind" (with BRKN) | 2018 | — | — | — | rowspan="1" |
| "I Believe" (featuring BJ the Chicago Kid) | 2020 | — | — | — | Let Yourself Be Loved |
| "Top of My Love" | — | — | — | ||
| "I Gotta Know" | — | — | — | ||
| "Use Me" | 2021 | — | — | — | Let Yourself Be Loved (deluxe edition) |
| "The Show" | — | — | — | ||
| "Forever" | — | — | — | ||
| "An meiner Seite" | 2022 | — | — | — | rowspan="2" |
| "Christmas Will Really Be Christmas" | — | — | — | ||
| "Hideaway" | 2023 | — | — | — | Willpower |
| "Happy" (featuring Ghostface Killah) | — | — | — | ||
| "Fly By" | — | — | — | ||
| "Alles Liebe" (with Max Herre) | 2024 | — | — | — | Alles Liebe |
| Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | AUT | SWI | ||||
| "Mit Dir" (Freundeskreis with Joy Denalane) | 1999 | 9 | 30 | 12 | Esperanto | |
| "So Many Men" (Youssou N'Dour featuring Joy Denalane) | 2003 | — | — | — | rowspan="2" | |
| "Torch of Freedom" ([Re:Jazz] featuring Joy Denalane) | 2003 | — | — | — | ||
| "1ste Liebe" (Max Herre with Joy Denalane) | 2004 | 33 | — | — | Max Herre | |
| "GO! (Remix)" (Common featuring Joy Denalane) | 2005 | — | — | — | Be | |
| "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (with Band Aid 30 Germany) | 2014 | 1 | 10 | 21 | rowspan="1" | |
| "Bathele" (Mafikizolo featuring Joy Denalane) | 2019 | — | — | — | African Legends | |
| "Das Wenigste" (Max Herre featuring Joy Denalane) | — | — | — | Athen | ||
| "What You Give" (Web Web featuring Joy Denalane) | 2020 | — | — | — | Worshippers | |
| "Golden" (Noah Slee featuring Joy Denalane) | 2022 | — | — | — | It Takes a Village | |
| Song | Year | Artist(s) | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Whats Up with That" | 1999 | DJ Thomilla, Joy Denalane | Genuine Draft | |
| "Mit Dir" | 1999 | Freundeskreis (with Joy Denalane) | Esperanto | |
| "Tabula Rasa, Pt. II" | 1999 | Freundeskreis (featuring FK Allstars) | Esperanto | |
| "Nicht Allein (Absolut Nicht Remix)" | 2000 | Absolute Beginner (featuring Joy Denalane) | Boombule (Bambule Remixed) | |
| "Kuck ma' wer da rollt" | 2001 | Afrob (featuring Joy Denalane & Max Herre) | Made In Germany | |
| "In Due Time" | 2001 | Sékou (featuring Joy Denalane & Max Herre) | D.I.a.S.P.O.R.a | |
| "Music" | 2001 | Tiefschwarz (feat. Joy Denalane) | RAL9005 | |
| "Torch of Freedom" | 2002 | [RE:Jazz], Joy Denalane | Infracom! Presents [Re:Jazz] | |
| "Men's World" | 2003 | ASD (featuring Brooke Russell & Joy Denalane) | "Hey Du" | |
| "1ste Liebe" | 2004 | Max Herre (with Joy Denalane) | Max Herre | |
| "Soulmate" | 2005 | Afrob (featuring Joy Denalane) | Hammer | |
| "Schlaflied für die Sehnsucht" | 2005 | Joy Denalane | Selma – in Sehnsucht eingehüllt | |
| "Arouna" | 2007 | Angélique Kidjo (featuring Joy Denalane) | Djin Djin | |
| "Ich geh für dich" | 2007 | Azad (featuring Joy Denalane) | Blockschrift | |
| "À 2 contre tous" | 2007 | Passi (featuring Joy Denalane) | Évolution | |
| "How Long Will It Last?" | 2010 | Nottz (featuring Joy Denalane) | You Need This Music |
