The phrase "actual hit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a genuine or real occurrence of something, often in contexts like sports, music, or data analysis.
Example: "The new single from the band was an actual hit, topping the charts for several weeks."
Alternatives: "real success" or "genuine hit".
Jesse Joensuu body-checked Callahan as Nielsen skated to the bench, but all Callahan received for the actual hit was an elbowing minor.
THE NANNY In the 1990s an actual hit network sitcom included a person working in Broadway theater as a leading character: Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy), a Broadway producer.
This helps determine whether fighters' common practice of wiggling their foot in their air results in an actual hit, but measuring the precise force of these kicks would ensure that only sufficiently hefty hits count towards the tally.
But I can't think of another band right now for who playing an actual "hit", a mainstream crowd favourite, is a rare mythical treat rather than a festival-goer's standard expectation.
Burd knew $ave Dat Money was his best shot at having an actual hit and wanted to make a music video that was as special as the song, soon brainstorming with director Tony Yacenda, a frequent collaborator.
But the actual hit, the reward you get from the food, diminishes, so you want to eat more to get the same reward — but when you do that, you further reduce the value of the food and further strengthen the signal for the food".
"If you look at the violence in Happy Valley, the actual hits and explicit violence was actually quite minimal".
Tropical house's momentum has been so unstoppable that Sony was keen for Kygo to mark his territory with a few actual hits, starting with 2014's Firestone, before anyone else adopted his sound, but Kygo and Shear both consider Bieber's take on the sound the sincerest form of flattery.
Worse, the system offers a rudimentary block and parry system, but fails to provide the bedrock to actually execute it: the camera gets stuck behind scenery, enemies attack animations fail to match with their actual hits, and your AI controlled allies jump in to mess things up at the last minute.
My belief is that the shows stunk on ice, but then you look at the actual hits ("More to Love" and "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here" did well) and you half-wish a meteor would smash into the planet, so disappointed you are with your fellow citizens.
Viewers know what actual hits sound like.
