Jewelry Box (T-ara album)

The album was announced on March 6, 2012, with a June release date, with a planned release in June, coinciding with the announcement of the group's live Japanese tour ~T-ara Japan Tour 2012: Jewelry Box~.^[1] The album was released in three versions: Diamond, Sapphire, and Pearl.The Diamond edition features special jewelry box-style packaging, the Sapphire edition is packaged in a digipak and the Pearl edition comes in a standard jewel case. The Diamond and Sapphire editions include a 100-page and 32-page photo book, respectively. Each edition also contains one random trading card out of eight possible types.

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Jewelry Box debuted at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart, with first-week sales of 57,102 in Japan.^[3] In its second week, the album dropped to number seven selling 14,276 copies.^[4] The album remained in the top twenty during its third and fourth weeks and fell to the top thirty in its fifth week. It ranked at number six on the Oricon Monthly Albums Chart, selling 86,530 copies.^[5] After a month of sales, the album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for shipments exceeding 100,000 copies.^[6]

Four singles have been released prior to the album, with the last released two weeks before the release of Jewelry Box. The group's debut Japanese single, "Bo Peep Bo Peep", was released on September 28, 2011.^[7] The music video for the song premiered four weeks prior to the release of the single on September 1, 2011, on the Japanese cable television network Space Shower TV.^[8] The single debuted at number one on Oricon's Weekly Singles chart with 49,712 copies sold, setting a record as the first Korean girl group to debut at the top position.^[9] The song has also reached number one on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.^[10]

"Yayaya" was announced on October 14, 2011,^[11] and was released on November 30, 2011.^[7] The single debuted at number seven on Oricon's Weekly Singles chart with 31,801 copies sold. It also peaked at number six on the Billboard Japan Hot 100. At the time, the group was actively promoting in both Korea and Japan, promoting their third Korean extended play Black Eyes alongside the promotion of "Yayaya".

"Roly-Poly" was released on February 29, 2012,^[7] with the music video premiering a month earlier on January 20. Initially, Japanese fans expressed concerns about the lack of promotional activities for "Roly-Poly", as the Korean version of the song was included as the b-side for their last single, "Yayaya", T-ara's Korean agency Core Contents Media announced that "It isn't definite that we do not plan to have activities for "Roly-Poly" in Japan, we only added in the Korean version as a b-side for now. We have still only in the early stages and have yet to pick out a song that will come after "Yayaya"."^[12] However, a promo flyer for T-ara's third single being "Roly-Poly" was uploaded to the internet on December 20, with their official Japanese website confirming the single on the same day.^[11] A short music video was also produced for one of the b-sides, the Japanese version of "Lies" titled "コジンマル～嘘～". "Roly-Poly" debuted at number three on Oricon's Weekly Singles chart, selling 41,285 copies, and peaking at number five on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.

"Lovey-Dovey", the fourth and final single for Jewelry Box, was released on May 23, 2012.^[11]