The phrase 'gain wide popularity' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to when something becomes popular with a large number of people. Example sentence: The new movie quickly gained wide popularity among youth audiences.
One of the first successful women in the sport, Hill shaped rock climbing for women and became a public spokesperson, helping it gain wider popularity and arguing for gender equality.
Originally limited in use to Indonesia's ethnic Chinese community, MSG has gained wide popularity as a seasoning and cooking ingredient the last decade.
First exhibited formally in the late 1960s, Mr. Sudduth's work gained wide popularity during the folk art boom of the 1980s.
The Bond books gained wide popularity in the United States after the newly elected president, John F. Kennedy, named a Bond novel on his list of favourite books in 1961.
Although direct marketing gained wide popularity as a marketing strategy only in the late 20th century, it has been successfully utilized for more than one hundred years.
A condensation of Karo's work, written for laypersons by Solomon Ganzfried (1804 66) and called Qitzur ("Abbreviated") Shulḥan ʿarukh, gained wide popularity and has been translated into several languages.
The metropolitan Atlanta area, where egg-shaped cookers have gained wide popularity and where four kamado companies are based, remains the de facto hub for ceramic cookers.
Nonetheless, the novel soon gained wide popularity through readers' word-of-mouth praise, and it was eventually published in more than three dozen countries; a film adaptation was released in 2007.
So when she wanted to boost her immune system and lower her stress levels a few years ago, she made an appointment with a visiting practitioner of ayurveda, a medical system that originated in India thousands of years ago and has gained wide popularity in the United States.
The extensile lateral approach has gained wide popularity for the surgical fixation of the intra-articular calcaneal fracture [3].
