"gathered popularity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something or someone that has become popular gradually or over time. Example: The new restaurant in town has been steadily gathering popularity among local foodies.
Twilight has gathered acclaim for its popularity with its target readers.
In October a group of Wallaby luminaries gathered to discuss the diminishing popularity of their sport.
However, it is possible that, since the technique has gained popularity and experience gathered to demonstrate its feasibility, we used ECMO also in patients who might previously have been successfully treated conventionally, and this may have influenced mortality.
But Julian's popularity was evident yesterday, as people gathered around a candle memorial on the sidewalk, discussed T-shirts and bandannas that would be printed with his picture, or just sat with red, tear-dampened faces.
Ms. Smith's career gathered momentum through the 1980s and '90s, gaining more popularity in Europe than in the United States.
And on Friday Lady Gaga, the 24-year-old whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, became the first living person to have more than 10 million fans, according to numbers gathered by Famecount.com, a British group that measures online popularity.
Folk music, particularly collegiate folk, was surging in popularity, and the Highwaymen, as they called themselves, gathered momentum, with robust voices, acoustic guitars, a banjo and other instruments.
Previous workincludes characterization of the peakness and saturation of video popularity on YouTubein relation to content visibility [18], crowd productivity dependence on the attention gathered by videos [1], the classification of bursty Twitter hashtags in relation to topic detectiontasks [21], and the clustering of hashtag popularity histograms based on their shape [22].
