The phrase "achieve popularity" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to gaining widespread approval or fame. For example, "The band quickly achieved popularity after the release of their debut album."
Photos: Sean Michael, 17, You have to be popular, you have to be in style -- in order to be popular you have to be in style, so to achieve popularity you have to have a lot of clothes, a lot of shoes.
Formed in 1988, when the members were teenage backing dancers, Smap conquered the domestic market before going on to achieve popularity in China and other parts of Asia.
(Was the pro-slavery theorist George Fitzhugh really dealing in "sound bites"?) I think it's time to declare a moratorium on scholars' denigrating other scholars for failing to achieve popularity.
Once apps achieve popularity, their success spirals.
They reunited in the 1890s for two more operas, but those did not achieve popularity.
We know that students who are not seen as gender-conforming are often unable to achieve popularity in high school.
She achieved popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV.
According to this woman's Wikipedia, her most notable achievements are singing on "Thank Abba for the Music" and (shockingly) achieving "popularity in Australia".
Nonetheless, as it achieved popularity, others proposed changing it to make it easier to market to more people.
The primitivo grape, grown widely in Apulia, is identical to zinfandel and has achieved popularity as a mass-market wine.
The English took to the sport and the game achieved popularity, notably in Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Manchester, Bristol, and London.
