"earn popularity" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to gain or acquire recognition or fame from others. Example: The new student's outgoing personality and volunteer work helped him earn popularity among his classmates.
Formed in 1986 and disbanded one album (Dum Dum) later in 1989, the duo had earned popularity in their native Glasgow and little recognition further afield.
For unions in Canada, favorable legal arrangements have been no substitute for the need to achieve real, earned popularity.
You know the story from beginning to end: A regular old website earns popularity, gains top users who are almost celebrities, and then the site dies more quickly than it rose.
When we are young, this kind of bullying, picking on the weak, earns popularity.
After earning popularity covering Top 40 hits, her debut album will contain all original music, positive vibes, and stories from her journey.
With its single-oriented success, Brown Sugar earned considerable sales success and defied the contemporary, producer-driven sound of the time, while earning popularity among mature R&B audiences and the growing hip hop generation.
The music giant has partnered with TV producer Brian Robbins and music entrepreneurs Russell Simmons and Steve Rifkind to form a new record label focused on acts that have already earned popularity on YouTube.
Mr. Hemphill, in demonstrating this, did not, by his own description of things, earn great popularity among Little River's whites.
But neither has the grit to risk even short-term unpopularity by proposing the necessarily painful treatment to ensure economic revival.Mr Schröder, moreover, is beset by that enduring weakness of the able tactician, who never quite makes the grade as a statesman: he cannot resist promoting bad policies to earn cheap popularity, especially before elections.
"Doing this kind of work might not earn you popularity points in by-elections, but it's what I'm in politics for".
