The Belonging Co
The Joy
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Planning Center (June 6)
CCLI Top 100
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In Nehemiah, eight 10, God’s people were weary, but the word reminded them, the joy of the Lord is your strength. That’s the heartbeat of our song, the joy. Maybe today you’re carrying something heavy, feeling worn out, or overwhelmed, but right in the middle of that, God offers you his joy, not as a feeling, but as a real and accessible strength.
Let this song be a reminder. Joy is not gone. It’s just waiting to be received. You belong and you are not alone.
About the Artist
The Belonging Co
The Belonging Co is a church movement based in Nashville, TN. Since it’s inception in 2014, the church has become known as a place to find freedom, breakthrough, and healing through God’s Word, His presence and worship.
The heart of The Belonging Co is that every song released would empower both individuals and the collective body of Christ to encounter God through worship, and experience the freedom that comes through knowing Jesus.
We desire encounter over entertainment, intimacy over industry, presence over presentation, people over position… And most of all JESUS over everything.
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The Lyrics
THE JOY
Feat. David Dennis
Written By: Andrew Holt and Mitch Wong
VERSE 1
This is the day You made
So I’ll rejoice and be glad, rejoice and be glad in it
This is where I believe
That You are more than enough, more than enough for me
PRE
You are faithful to Your promise, You are strong when I am weak
When I’m standing in Your presence, I have everything I need
CHORUS
The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength
The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength
O my soul, bless His Name, all that is within me say
The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength
VERSE 2
Jesus, come what may
You are worthy of all, worthy of all my praise
BRIDGE
Let it rise up like a river overflowing Holy Spirit
Let it pour out with no limit overflowing Holy Spirit
TAG
O my soul, bless His Name, all that is within me say
The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength
Song Timeline
If you’re curious about The Belonging Co’s overall performance in weekly and total consumption in the US, here’s a overview on their brand as of June 26 according to Luminate’s Music Connect tool.
AIR1 recently wrapped up a huge AMT project and “The Joy” was one of the strongest songs in the research project bringing it back into full-recurrent airplay at 12x per week. As a result, Shazam’s have spike intensely. People LOVE this song and are searching for it when they hear it! The song is already up to more than 17,300 Shazams with it’s only current airplay coming from AIR1!
If you pay attention to Chartmetric Track Scores at all, you understand how significant this metric is in identifying a hit song right now. This data service utilizes an algorithm (data from DSPs, social media, Shazam, YouTube, and other metrics) to assign a popularity score to each song across the entire music industry. Currently, “The Joy” ranks #8 of all songs within the Top 50 on the Billboard Christian AC chart. This is a CORE reason to pay attention to this song and prioritize it in your weekly music discussions and decisions!
Chartmetric has a handy tool that allows you to compare songs overall Track Score to gauge current popularity. The Joy is currently one of the top performing worship songs at radio right now! Take a look…
“The Joy” is currently one of the Top 10 songs on Multitracks! This service is used in a TON of churches and this is yet another incredible indicator of the popularity of this song from The Belonging Co!
A quick look at Chartmetric’s overall audience data reveals some commonality with the target audience of Christian Radio…
“The Joy” is consistently growing on the CCLI Top 100 chart which represents the most-sung songs in the US! This last report includes data from Q1 2025 and “The Joy” was in the top 90 and growing! Click the image to see the latest full list…
The Joy from The Belonging Co is one of the most-sung songs in the church across the US right now. In fact, it’s #26 as of June 6. Currently there are more than 65,000 churches that utilize Planning Center every week to organize their service so this is a HUGE song across the entire US right now.
The Joy from The Belonging Co has been going all around the world within the church over the past year and now they merged it with the classic Christmas hymn, Joy To The World.
