Sentence examples for achieve crossover from inspiring English sources

– could never achieve crossover success?

The hipster indie band who with one nagging neo-novelty hit achieve crossover success and drive everybody mad all summer?

But, as her Detroit friends on the Motown label enjoyed hit after hit, Franklin struggled to achieve crossover success.

It reached No. 5 on the rhythm and blues charts but failed to achieve crossover success when Pat Boone recorded his hit version of the song.

Appearing on Rock Against Racism bills alongside the likes of the Stranglers helped Handsworth Revolution achieve crossover status and rack up a cool quarter million sales.

Whereas the breakthrough Norman Lear shows of the 1970's ("Sanford and Son," "Good Times," "The Jeffersons") attracted a big multiracial following, and in the 1980's "The Cosby Show" ruled the airwaves, today's black sitcoms have been unable to achieve crossover status.

Dixie Chicks, American country music group that achieved crossover success in the pop market.

Opens April 9. Marga Gomez's solo drama is about her parents, Latino entertainers who never achieved crossover success (1 30).

There are some pictures of black performers, but all have achieved crossover recognition, from Chuck Berry and Aretha Franklin to Tina Turner, Grace Jones and L L Cool J.

Though they never achieved crossover success, they were influential (Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong is a Phillips disciple), and they continue to attract an army of loyal fans.

He achieved crossover success during the postwar period, using solo guitar with voice the approach typical of earlier Delta players for his hit record "Boogie Chillen" in 1948.