On December 5, 2015, in a news release, it was announced that Starship Entertainment and Yue Hua Entertainment will be debuting a new girl group in early 2016, named Cosmic Girls, and the girl group will have 12 members from South Korea and China. Later that day, it was confirmed that EXY, a former contestant on Unpretty Rapstar 2, would be part of the group's lineup. Five days later, on December 10, Bona, Cheng Xiao, and Dayoung were revealed as part of the group's "Wonder Unit".
On December 17, the second three-members of Xuan Yi, Eunseo, and Yeoreum were revealed as part of the "Joy Unit". The six revealed members released a cover of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" on December 22. On December 25, members SeolA, EXY, and Soobin were announced as making up the group's "Sweet Unit".
Finally, on December 31, Luda, Dawon, and Mei Qi were revealed as part of the fourth and final unit, the "Natural Unit". link=Would You Like? |WJSN promoting Would You Like?
On January 4, 2016, Starship Entertainment announced that Cosmic Girls would officially be debuting in February. On February 11, a teaser photo posted across the group's social medias announced their debut mini album, Would You Like? , would be released on February 24.
On this day, the mini album, along with its title track "MoMoMo" were released. The next day, the group held their debut performance on Mnet's M! Countdown.
On March 9, the group released a music video for "Catch Me", a b-side track from their debut mini album. On July 1, Starship Entertainment announced plans to debut a special collaboration unit made up of members from WJSN and MONSTA X. Later on, it was revealed that seven members of WJSN (SeolA, Exy, Soobin, Eunseo, Cheng Xiao, Dayoung, and Yeoreum) would take part in the collaborative unit, named Y TEEN.
The group's first and only digital single, "Do Better", was released on August 6. On July 10, a mysterious video teaser hinted at the addition of a 13th member, widely believed to be Produce 101 contestant and I. O.
I member Yeonjung. Later that day, Starship Entertainment confirmed Yeonjung's addition to the group, whilst clarifying that she would continue to carry out I. O.
I promotions until the group's disbandment in January 2017. On July 28, teaser photos posted across the group's social medias announced the release of their second mini album, titled The Secret. This marked the group's first-ever comeback and first release with 13 members.
The mini album, along with its title track of the same name, were released on August 17. On December 14, a coming soon image teaser was posted across the group's social medias featuring the date "January 2017", hinting at a new comeback. A scheduler posted on December 18 revealed WJSN's third mini album From.
WJSN would be released on January 3, 2017. On January 3, 2017, WJSN released their third mini album, named From. WJSN, and the music video for its title track "I Wish".
A week later, on January 11, the group revealed their official fanclub name to be "Ujung (우정)". The name means "friendship" in Korean, but was also described by the group as an abbreviation for the Korean phrase for "space station". link=Happy Moment|WJSN promoting Happy Moment On April 3, the group announced via Twitter that they would be holding their first-ever concert, Would You Like – Happy Moment, on May 19 and 20 at Blue Square Samsung Card Hall in Seoul.
On May 18, it was announced that WJSN would be making a comeback in early June with their first studio album. The album, titled Happy Moment, along with the music video for its title track "Happy", were released on June 7. The first week sales of Happy Moment were three-times that of the group's previous releases with over 10,300 copies sold.
In collaboration with the makeup brand KissMe, on July 14, the group released a promotional digital singled titled "Kiss Me". On September 1, the group announced their official fan color...
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