iKON officially debuted on September 15th 2015 with a warm-up single, "My Type". This song received a warm welcome from the public. It was proved with within 24 hours of its release, the music video for "My Type" surpassed 1.7 million views on YouTube. They also received their first win through the music show "Inkigayo" even before making their official appearance on TV. On 24 September, "My Type" achieved a 'triple crown' on the Gaon chart, having taken the number one spot on the digital, download, and streaming charts simultaneously for the 39th week of 2015. On 18 September, the single became number one on the music video chart of Chinese music streaming sites QQ Music and Youku. iKON also trended on Weibo, where they were reportedly searched 1.3 billion times.
iKON's Debut Half Album was released digitally on 1 October. The group held their first concert, Showtime, on 3 October at the Seoul Olympic Gymnastics Arena. The show sold out 13,000 tickets. The concert's taking place at the largest concert hall in Korea was unprecedented for a new K-pop group. SHOWTIME was broadcast live through Naver's V App and streamed by over 500,000 viewers.
On 4 October, a day after their debut concert, the group made their music show debut on SBS's Inkigayo with "Rhythm Ta" and "Airplane", receiving their third music show win for "My Type" in person. On 8 October, they won on Mnet's M!Countdown with "Rhythm Ta". According to the Gaon Music Charts, iKON topped the weekly album sales charts with the first half of Welcome Back for 4–10 October.
Two digital singles, "Apology" and "Anthem", were released on 16 November. "Apology" took the number one spot on Gaon's digital chart for the 48th week of 2015. On 24 December, three new singles, "Dumb & Dumber", "What's Wrong?" and "I Miss You So Bad" were released.
On January 13, 2016, the group made their Japanese debut with Japanese version of their album Welcome Back, the album sold 61,508 copies in its first week of release, and charted third on the Oricon Weekly chart, earning them New Artist Award and Best New Artist Award in 58th Japan Record Award. With the Korean edition the album sold over 100,000 copies in Japan in the end of 2016.
On 17 March 2016, YG Entertainment announced that iKON would be holding their first Asia Tour iKONCERT 2016: Showtime Tour with dates in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. On July 1, their agency announced the band's second Japanese arena tour entitled iKON Japan Tour 2016. The tour was set to visit five cities for a total of 14 concerts with an attendance of 150,000 fans. Later, the company announced the addition of two shows to be held in Tokyo due to more demands in tickets thus, raising the attendance to 176,000 people from six cities. The completion of the second tour pegs the band's total concert attendance during its debut year at 322,000. In November 14, YGEX announced a second leg of iKON Japan Tour in 2017 due to the success of the arena tour, and to visit Yokohama Arena for the first time. The second leg gathered 120,000 fans from three cities, to rise the attendance of the tour to 296,000 from 25 shows.
On 30 May, the group released the digital single "#WYD" (short for "What You Doing"). The song debuted at number three on the Gaon Digital Chart. On August 10, the release of iKON's first original Japanese single Dumb & Dumber was announced. The single was released on September 28 with a CD+DVD version and a CD version. It debuted at number one on both the Oricon Daily Single Album Chart and the Oricon Weekly Single Album Chart.
The group participate on Chinese dance survival program Heroes of Remix in mid 2016, alongside PSY as their mentor. They were the most winning artist in the show, winning three weeks, and gaining a good reviews for their performances. But due to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) issue, the group was entirely edited out from the last episodes of the show. Their activities in the show and touring in China lead them to win Asian Most Popular Korean Group in China Music Awards, Best Group in Netease Attitude Awards, and Best New Force Group and Album of the Year in QQ Music Awards.
On February 11, 2017, it was announced that iKON will start their first dome tour, with two shows set to be on Kyocera Dome and Seibu Prince Dome, with 90,000 fans expected to come. This mark them as the fastest group to make a concert in Japan dome since debut. On June 18, an additional 22 concerts in eight Japanese cities were announced by YGEX, with 233,000 fans are expected to attend their concerts, making the it the longest and the largest arena tour held by the band in Japan
On March 2, YG Entertainment confirmed that iKON begin shooting two music videos for their new album that set to be release on April, during the shooting of the music video Chanwoo injured his ankle and consequently, the music video shoot got delayed. It was confirmed that they will release a new series albums under the name New Kids and to be released continuously during 2017, the series start on May 22, with the title New Kids: Begin.
Right now, they are busy doing the show "Idol School Trip" which is a global friendship project with Japan. This show is aired on JTBC every Saturday.
I wanted to include some of their music videos but you can easily search it up on Youtube. So...
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p.s. all credits due to Wikipedia.
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