page_title: Joy (singer)
section_title: 2015–present: Solo activities
hierarchical_section_title: Joy (singer) / Career / 2015–present: Solo activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Joy Park performing the Red Velvet song "Peek-a-Boo" at Melon Music Awards in December 02, 2017. Português: Joy Park no Melon Music Awards, em 02 de dezembro de 2017.
context_page_description: Park Soo-young, known by the stage name Joy, is a South Korean singer, actress and television host. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Red Velvet. Aside from group activities, Joy had starring roles in The Liar and His Lover and Tempted.
context_section_description: In June 2015, Joy began her first solo television activity with the fourth season of MBC variety show We Got Married, where she was paired with BtoB's Yook Sung-jae. Joy received significant recognition for her participation and won the New Star Award and Best Couple Award at the 2015 MBC Entertainment Awards. Joy also released a duet with co-star Yook entitled "Young Love" in April 2016, with Joy receiving official songwriting credit from KOMCA. Departing from the show in May 2016, they became known as one of the longest-running and most popular couples in the show's history.
  In November 2016, Joy collaborated with Lim Seul-ong in a duet titled "Always In My Heart". The song reached number one on five charts and number ten on the Gaon Digital Chart. In March 2017, Joy made her acting debut as the female lead in tvN's music-based drama The Liar and His Lover. For her performance as lead actress, Joy received the Newcomer Award at the OSEN Cable TV Awards. Joy also released several OSTs through Stone Music for the drama: Yeowooya, I'm Okay, Your Days, Shiny Boy, Waiting For You, and The Way To Me. The drama is a South Korean adaptation of Kotomi Aoki's popular manga Kanojo wa Uso o Aishisugiteru. 
  In July 2017, Joy appeared on the singing variety contest show, King of Mask Singer, where she won her first round of the competition and performed under the alias of Bandabi.
   In January 2018, Joy became the co-host of the second season of JTBC music variety show Sugar Man alongside top TV personalities Yoo Jae-suk, You Hee-yeol, and Park Na-rae. The revamp was a success, and rated higher than its initial season. In 2018, Joy was also cast as the female lead in the MBC drama Tempted, loosely based on the French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, and recorded the OST "OMG!". Joy received numerous award nominations for her performance including: Best Actress at the 2018 MBC Drama Awards, Actress of the Year at the Brand of the Year Awards, and the Popularity Award (Drama Actress) at The Seoul Awards.
  In July 2018, Joy was chosen as one of the hosts of Lifetime's new variety show Pajama Friends, alongside Song Ji-hyo and Jang Yoon-ju. In October 2018, Joy released the soundtrack song "Dream Me" (with Mark Lee) for KBS's The Ghost Detective. "Dream Me" went on to be listed in Spotify's Top Korean OSTs of 2019.
  In January 2019, it was announced that Joy was chosen to be the main host of Asia's most popular beauty program, OnStyle's Get It Beauty, alongside Jang Yoon-ju. Establishing herself in the industry, in May 2019 Joy was nominated for Beauty Icon of the Year at the Brand of the Year Awards and Beauty Icon at the Korea First Brand Awards in October 2019. In December 2019, Joy was confirmed as a cast member of athletic variety show, Handsome Tigers, alongside Cha Eun-woo, Lee Sang-yoon and Seo Jang-hoon. In recognition of her work across various entertainment programs, Joy was announced to have won the Best Female Variety Idol Award at the 2020 Brand Customer Loyalty Awards. 
  In March 2020, Joy released the soundtrack song, “Introduce Me a Good Person” for tvN's Hospital Playlist. The song reached number one realtime on Naver, four on Genie, Bugs, five on the Billboard Korea K-pop Hot 100 Chart, and has surpassed 300 million digital points on Gaon. Joy also went on to be ranked #2 on the Melon Female Solo Artist Chart. In April 2020, Joy participated in "Sangnoksu 2020" alongside prominent Korean artists, honoring medical professionals around the world fighting against COVID-19. In May 20, 2020, R&B artist and producer Crush collaborated with Joy for the song, "Mayday", which topped multiple major charts, including achieving a Genie roof hit and reaching number one on the Melon R&B/Soul Music Chart. By mid-year, Joy was nominated as a soloist for the Melon Music Awards Top 10 Artist Bonsang, becoming the first SM Female Artist without an official solo debut to receive a Bonsang (Main Prize) nomination.
caption: Joy during Red Velvet's performance at the 2017 MMA
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