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Staxx of Joy

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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.

Discography

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List of singles, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
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AUS
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NED
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SWI
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US Dance
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"Joy" 1993 25 90 33 30 1 Non-album singles
"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.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Menomonee, Wisconsin: Record Research. p. 245. ISBN 9780898201567. OCLC 56410033.
  2. ^ UK chart peaks:
    • Top 100 peaks: "Official Charts > Staxx". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 6 March 2016. N.B. peaks between 76–100 on this site are 'compressed' chart peaks, with singles falling out of the top 75 with a sales decline exceeding 20% on the previous week's sales removed from the chart.
    • Top 200 peaks: "Chart Log UK 1994–2010 > DJ S – The System Of Life". zobbel.de. Retrieved 6 March 2016. N.B. this site displays uncompressed chart peaks (no exclusions applied) for positions 76–200.
  3. ^ Australian (ARIA Chart) peaks:
  4. ^ "Staxx of Joy - Dutch chart". dutchcharts.nl. 21 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Staxx of Joy - Swiss chart". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  6. ^ "Staxx of Joy - US Dance Club Songs". billboard.com. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
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