"WINNER" won the artist debut project "WIN: Who Is Next," which was organized by YG ENTERTAINMENT in 2013 to debut the second boy band following BIGBANG.
They debuted in August 2014, and reached #1 on "M!COUNTDOWN" in the same month, just after four days from their debut. Their record for being the fastest Korean male / female group to reach #1 has yet to be surpassed, and their comeback mini-album "HOLIDAY," released on July 5, 2022, after a two-year and three-month hiatus, is still at #1 on the iTunes charts in eighteen countries around the world.