The phrase "achieved greater popularity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the success or acceptance of something over time, particularly in relation to its popularity compared to other things.
Example: "The new smartphone model achieved greater popularity than its predecessor, leading to increased sales."
Alternatives: "gained more popularity" or "attained higher popularity."
It is possible that Cunningham would have achieved greater popularity if he had choreographed to recognisable music instead of the "live electronic music" composed by Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, and other musicians who worked with him.
Recently, however, the case/control design has achieved greater popularity owing to the larger sample size (and thus greater power) that is achievable [WTCC C, 2007] and the development of alternative methods to deal with population stratification [Devlin and Roeder, 1999; Price et al., 2006; Pritchard et al., 2000].
Each has shown different degrees of effectiveness, but each has achieved great popularity in the schools.
American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who achieved great popularity in the 1970s and '80s.
The English composer Sir John Stainer's The Crucifixion (1887) achieved great popularity.
During the silent-screen era three actors achieved great popularity as stars of westerns.
In Kannada the same movement was exemplified by Basava, whose vachanas ("sayings" or "talks") achieved great popularity.
Two of his best plays, Der Alte Freiherr (1825; "The Old Baron") and Lenore (1829), a dramatization of Gottfried August Bürger's poem, achieved great popularity.
president of Czechoslovakia (1968 75) who achieved great popularity by resisting the Soviet Union's demands during and after its invasion of August 1968.
The band prospered, but it was not until, with the help of arranger Ronnie Binge, Mantovani developed its distinctive strings that he achieved great popularity.
Bob Seger, byname of Robert Clark Seger (born May 6 , 1945 Dearborn, Mich., U.S ., American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who achieved great popularity in the 1970s and '80s.
