Joy was featured on the May 8, 2010 cover as well Advertising sign, nearly a year after the cast of the Fox series debuted on the charts. Ann Donahue wrote that issue, “Even in its first season, the program has captivated young fans with its inventive mix of musical-theatrical brio, pop chart savvy and outsider empathy.”
On the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 6, 2009, the band's covers of Journey's “Don't Stop Believin'” and Amy Winehouse's “Rehab” entered at No. 4 and 98, respectively, the former with 177,000 downloads. US in the tracking week, according to Luminate. The songs appeared on the first Joy episode, which aired on May 19, 2009.
The Joy The cast climbed to a record 207 Hot 100 entries (until its last, a cover of Bob Dylan's “To Make You Feel My Love” in October 2013), as Fox and Columbia Records unveiled a strategy to multi-song release, focus on pop and Broadway favorites digitally after each new Joy episode. (Specifically, with the songs essentially serving as souvenirs and nearly all lacking radio play, 173 of the 207 titles spent a week on the Hot 100.) Between May 2010 and March 2012, the show had 15 weeks each with five debut ? four weeks each with six arrivals. and two weeks each with seven.
On the Hot 100 dated February 26, 2011, not even two years after the series aired, the Joy The cast surpassed Elvis Presley's long-standing record for most appearances to that point. As of the list dated June 8, 2024, only Drake (332) and Taylor Swift (263) have had more hits.
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“I remember talking [executive producer] Dante Di Loreto and [co-creator] Ryan Murphy and said: “If everything goes well, we should see records in the top 10 and we should be selling albums,” Geoff Bywater, then head of music at 20th Century Fox Television, said in 2010. Joy cover theme. “And, if all this works out, we should be on tour.”
Any such doubts were dispelled during the show's nearly six-year run (until March 20, 2015). In addition to the Hot 100 haul (a tally that includes three top 10s, with “Believin'” his highest charting hit — even surpassing the No. 9 peak in 1981 of the original Journey classic), the Joy The ensemble scored 31 entries on the Billboard 200 albums chart, 14 of which were in the top 10, including three No. 1s. Its US album sales to date total 8 million.
Along with his trademark mix of heart (often in touching scenes between Jane Lynch and Lauren Potter) and humor (almost every Lynch line), the series was a magnet for revered pop hits, as Joy cast on the Hot 100 with 58 No. 1 releases, from covering Rihanna's “Take a Bow” in September 2009 to Whitney Houston's “How Will I Know” in May 2012. Also among the leaders the group returned to the chart were songs by Adele, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Prince, Queen, Britney Spears and Usher.
As JoyThe show's appeal grew, the series welcomed high-profile guests and the cast scored Hot 100 hits with Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Patrick Harris, Ricky Martin, Idina Menzel, Olivia Newton-John and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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To date, the Joy The cast's songs have sold 48.3 million downloads in the US – and pulled in 3.8 billion official streams in the US.
Meanwhile, the Joy The cast earned $45.9 million, according to Billboard Boxscore, over 53 tour dates, all in 2010-11, highlighted by a seven-show run at London's O2 Arena that sold out all 103,513 tickets.
The series also received 22 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning four. Among the series regulars, Lynch was honored for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Murphy was honored for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, while stars Chris Colfer, Dot-Marie Jones, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison and Mike O'Malley won nominations.
Except Joy Billings, Michele reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 in March 2014 with her LP Strongera high among the cast members in their own right, after Morrison had reached No. 24 in May 2011 with his self-titled set.
Fifteen years after its premiere, the show's fandom endures, in part on platforms that didn't exist when it originally aired. After peaking at No. 93 on the Hot 100 in May 2010, the cast's “Rose's Turn,” sung by Colfer, reached No. 3 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 this March.
The fan fervor among the 'Gleeks' was evident from the start, Bywater recalled in 2010. “We saw it in the stores we did at the beginning of the project. We did a Hot Topic tour right after the pilot, and it was 3-, 4-, 500 people. Within a few months, we were talking about 1,500 people outside the border in New York.
“It happened very quickly.”
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