COLORAMA pallet

**COLORAMA pallet** is a global supergroup formed in 2016 by APM Entertainment. The group consists of all members from the APM Entertainment boy bands under the COLORAMA pallet. The group debuted on April 2016, with their self-titled EP, which entered the US *Billboard* 200 at number four. Their debut single RED RING was among *Billboard*'s Critics' Picks for the "25 Best pop Songs" of 2016.

## COLORAMA pallet Units

### COLORAMA pallet

* 白練from COLORAMA (Shironeri from COLORAMA)
* 빨간색from COLORAMA (Bbalgansaek from COLORAMA)
* 青碧from COLORAMA (QB from COLORAMA)
	+ QB's Tea Time from 青碧 (Also Known as QB Tea Time)
* สีเขียว from COLORAMA (Also known as SK)
* 森林绿 from COLORAMA (Senlinliu/SL2 from COLORAMA)
* TOKYO NEON from COLORAMA
* Floralwhite from COLORAMA
* की धुन from COLORAMA (KD from COLORAMA)
* PASTEL SILVER from COLORAMA

### DELUXE COLORAMA pallet

* GRAND8 from COLORAMA
	+ Golden Shine from COLORAMA
* ALL9 from COLORAMA
	+ ROYAL BLUE from COLORAMA

## History

### 2015

COLORAMA pallet's 1st Japanese unit 白練from COLORAMA (Shironeri from COLORAMA) was announced in October 2015

SHIRONERI released their 2nd Single FIRE on December 2015 (火) containing a cover of Bbalgansaek's FIRE in Japanese and a cover of ARASHI's Love So Sweet. It also contained a Japanese Version of QB's Chrysanthemum and 2 original tracks.

### 2016

COLORAMA pallet's 1st Japanese unit 白練from COLORAMA (Shironeri from COLORAMA) was announced in January 2016.

COLORAMA pallet's 1st Korean unit (and second overall) 빨간색from COLORAMA (Bbalgansaek from COLORAMA) was announced in December 2015, days after the 1st unit was announced. It debuted also in January 2016.

On January 2016 member Ryo returned from his Hiatus and SHIRONERI released a single entitled Passione featuring PALACE48's member Miyawaki Sakura.

COLORAMA pallet's special unit (and 3rd unit overall) SPECTRUM was introduced in January 2016, and debuted in February 2016.

On February 2016 SHIRONERI released an EP entitled Bloody Moon. The EP also included a cover of Arashi's WISH.

COLORAMA pallet debuted with their 1st Single RED RING (English Version) on April 2016 (The EP contained a Japanese, Korean and English Version of the single)

Bbalgansaek released their 2nd Single on May 2016, named FIRE. The single also contained a cover on Super Junior's Shake It Up and a Chinese Version of Scorpionfish featuring upcoming QB's member Huan Chu

COLORAMA pallet's special unit (and 3rd unit overall) SPECTRUM had their 1st comeback on June 2016, featuring 2 exclusive arbyte members.

COLORAMA pallet's 1st Chinese unit (and 4th overall) 青碧from COLORAMA (Qīng bì from COLORAMA) was announced on July 2016. The 7 member Chinese boy group would debut August 2016. APM Entertainment would also announce that COLORAMA pallet as a full group would only have one comeback a year, meaning that we would only see unit activities during the coming months. APM also announced there were 2 units scheduled for debut, A 3 member Thai unit and a duet Taiwan Unit. This would be controvesial among the fans as APM was also managing another rookie group SOL48.

QB released their 1st Single on August 2016 entitled Chrysanthemum. At their showcase it was also announced member Huang Bai would be featured on the supergroup unit SPECTRUM from COLORAMA

SPECTRUM's 3rd Single ALOE was released in September 2016, It was the first release as a 3 member group, featuring only fulltime members Chiharu, Jungji and QB's member Huang Bai

On Septembre 2016 QB released their second single Life so green. It included a cover of TFBoys Manual of Youth

COLORAMA pallet's 1 Thai Unit (and 5th overall) สีเขียว from COLORAMA (SK from COLORAMA) debuted on October 2016. Their debut Ep Chameleon was the first release of any unit to contain all singles from previous units translated into Thai. QB also released their 2nd single Jungle.

SPECTRUM's 3rd comeback Single GREEN MAMBA was released on November 2016. It was the 1st release as a 6 member group. It would also be announced at the showcase that Arbyte members would rotate every year and that this would be Kyomoto Taiga's last release as part of SPECTRUM. It would also be announced that a member from THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE, Aoyama Riku (青山陸), better known by his stage name RIKU, would be replacing him after promotions finish.

COLORAMA pallet's 1 Taiwanese unit (and 6th overall) 森林绿 from COLORAMA (Senlinliu/SL2 from COLORAMA) debuted on December 2016. It was revealed by APM Entertainment's management that the unit would not debut as a duet but rather as a 3 member boy group. Their debut EP was entitled Peppermint

On December 2016 SHIRONERI travelled to China for a Joint concert with their brother unit 青碧from COLORAMA (QB from COLORAMA).

### 2017

Bbalgansaek released their 3rd single on January 2017, named Sunshine Salsa. The song charted N1 in Mexico and Colombia ITunes Charts.

On January 2017 SHIRONERI announced they would be releasing their 1st album on February, but it was never released. They instead released a digital single titled Crimson.

On January 2017 QB released their 1st Album entitled 自然法則 (Zìrán fǎzé) It also included a duet song by Ming Xie and Lin Tse that was used as theme song for the video game, China Golden Era warriors.

COLORAMA pallet's 1st EP Chilli Pepper (Green Version) would be released on February 2017. The album title track was sung by all 25 members and the EP also contained English Versions of all Unit singles till date, except for Chrysanthemum and SPECTRUM's Summer Go!Go! who had English Versions in their respective releases.

Later on in March 2017 COLORAMA pallet would make their official Japan Debut with the release of Chilli Pepper (Red Version) Containing all of SPECTRUM's singles but in Japanese Versions sung by different arrangements of members.

The group would announce that Korean Unit 빨간색from COLORAMA (Bbalgansaek from COLORAMA) would be debuting in Japan during the 4th trimester. It would also be announced that Japanese Unit 白練from COLORAMA (Shironeri from COLORAMA) would be making their English debut at the same time and that all untis would have at least one release per year.

It was also clarified that even though SPECTRUM is a unit of COLORAMA pallet, they have their own schedule and could be promoting alongside the other units, taking into account all the members schedules.

It would also be announced that there were more units on the plans, both domestically (Japan & Korea) and overseas, and that the idea was for each country to have around 10 members representing them.

On April 2017 members Ming Xie and Lin Tse debuted in their own subunit named QB's Tea Time from COLORAMA

On November 2017, TOKYO NEON from COLORAMA released their predebut single Tokyo Neon Fever. The 5 member boy group announced their debut would be on December that same year. Japanese American member Haruki Backus, was appointed as leader of the unit and as the member with concurrency in SPECTRUM.

## Trivia

* COLORAMA pallet member Toshiaki Chiharu was supposed to debut as part of a cancelled project collaboration between SM Entertainment and APM Entertainment. SM backtracked in the idea and APM continued with the project by themselves.
* Guo Abe was originally scheduled to debut with the Korean unit 빨간색from COLORAMA (Bbalgansaek from COLORAMA) but lost the spot in the final due to the group being reduced from a 7-member group to a 6-member group.