After releasing a tragic music video for their track "Severely", F.T. Island released their fourth mini-album, entitled 'Grown Up'. Featuring five songs, 'Grown Up' is composed of slow-tempo rock ballads, and as the album title suggests, displays the group's maturation since their last release.
The album was released on January 31 and had much success. 'Grown Up' secured the No.1 position on the Hanteo album chart for total album sales on both the daily and weekly charts as well as title track 'Severely' achieving an 'all-kill' on various online music charts. As soon as it was made available to the public, the album sold like hot cakes. The album was completely sold out only ten days after its release, recording some 50,000 sales. In response their agency, FNC Entertainment, had this to say, "We filled the album with ballad songs to show a change in musical style, and the response is even better than we expected." their agency stated, "The supply in the retail stores which were ordered before the release have mostly sold out, and we are currently working on additional production to meet the demand.
On March 9, F.T. Island and fellow label-mates CN Blue performed in America for the first time at Los Angeles' Nokia Theater.
In April, F.T. Island returned to Japan to promote their 7th Japanese single "Neverland", which was released on the 18th. "Neverland", a fast tempo rock song, was decided to be the opening theme song of the animation Ozuma, a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Japanese broadcasting system WOWOW. Ozuma broadcast its first episode on March 16, and is written by famous cartoonist, Matsumoto Reiji.
F.T. Island released their second major Japanese album 20 (Twenty) on May 16, 2012. It debuted at number four on the weekly Oricon albums charts, selling 41,726 copies in its first week, earning the band their best first-week sales in Japan. The same year, F.T. Island released their fourth Korean studio album Five Treasure Box and its single "I Wish" on September 10. Within the first week of its release, the album sold over 30,000 copies in South Korea. It went on to debuted at number one on the Gaon album charts.
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