iKon's Debut Half Album was released digitally on October 1.

The group held their first

concert, Showtime, on October 3 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.[16]
On October 4, 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 October 8, 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 October 4–10.[17]
During October, iKon embarked on a series of Japanese fan meetings titled "iKontact" in
Tokyo, Aichi, Fukuoka and Osaka, attended by 26,600 fans. At the end of that month,
iKon received a MelOn All-Kill Popularity award[18] and had sold 82,208 copies of Debut
Half Album - Welcome Back.[19] On October 28, it was announced that the full album's
release would be delayed to December 14, with two additional digital singles released
on November 16.
Two digital singles, "Apology" and "Anthem", were released on November 16. "Apology"
took the number one spot on Gaon's digital chart for the 48th week of 2015. [20] On
December 24, three new singles, "Dumb & Dumber", "What's Wrong?" and "I Miss You So
Bad" were released.