Roly-Poly (T-ara song)

"Roly-Poly"
Japanese regular edition cover
Single by T-ara
from the album John Travolta Wannabe and Jewelry Box
Released29 June 2011
29 February 2012 (JP)
GenreK-pop, disco[1]
Length3:34
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Shinsadong Tiger
  • Choi Kyu-sung
T-ara Korean singles chronology
"Yayaya"
(2010)
"Roly-Poly"
(2011)
"Cry Cry"
(2011)
Audio sample
"Roly-Poly"
Music video
"Roly-Poly" on YouTube
"Roly-Poly" (Japanese ver.) on YouTube

"Roly-Poly" is a song by South Korean girl group T-ara. It was taken from their second mini album John Travolta Wannabe which was released on 29 June 2011. The song was written and produced by Shinsadong Tiger and Choi Kyu-sung, who were also behind the group's 2009 song "Bo Peep Bo Peep". "Roly-Poly" won three weekly music program awards on M Countdown and Inkigayo. Only a month after release, the song accumulated over US$2.3 million in digital sales with over $280,000 per day.[2] Despite peaking at number two on the Gaon Digital Chart, it went on to become the best-selling song of 2011 in South Korea with over 4,000,000 digital downloads, the highest figure for a K-pop girl group single on Gaon in the 2010s.[3]

  1. ^ "The 100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s: Staff List". Billboard. 25 November 2019.
  2. ^ The approximate conversion of ₩2.5 billion and ₩300 million in 2011 (₩1 = US$0.00094)
  3. ^ 올해 가장 많이 팔린 음원은? 티아라 '롤리폴리' [What is the best-selling song of the year? T-ara 'Roly Poly']. Osen (in Korean). Naver. 14 December 2011.