'pursue mainstream' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone or something adhering to the general beliefs or practices of a particular group or society. For example, "The business decided to pursue mainstream advertising strategies to reach the widest possible audience."
"The band was at a crossroads," says Jones. "Ausaf and Azhar wanted to pursue mainstream careers and me and Pervez wanted to stick with Alien Kulture".
They can sometimes provide direct-response advertisers with sufficient success -- and cash -- for them to pursue mainstream audiences with more traditional and expensive advertising.
Increased specialization of scientific research, pressure to pursue mainstream topics, and the difficulty of obtaining grant money for the most audacious projects encourage scientists to focus on the incremental.
The spots, aimed at young skateboarders, present vignettes in which athletes pursuing mainstream sports like golf, tennis and running are harassed and heckled -- treated, in other words, as skateboarders often complain they are.
But having fought to the pinnacle of his declining profession and taken control of his career, Mayweather appears to be pursuing mainstream fame and money à la Paris Hilton more strenuously than he's chasing Sugar Ray Robinson and all-time greatness as a boxer.
He has pursued mainstream acting, but his roles in movies and music videos are not so much characters as they are symbols of late-20th century depravity, of everyman triumphs and the possibility of dollar-and-a-dream upward mobility in this country.
"But today no one is forcing you to pursue the mainstream," she said.
Most of the really world-improving people I know are too busy doing outreach work, grassroots activism, volunteering at domestic violence shelters or answering rape crisis hotlines to visit a tattoo parlour or pursue a mainstream sporting, media, acting or music career.
Is she interested in pursuing a mainstream publisher again?
Several of the women are students, some are aspiring dancers who audition during the day, and others moonlight while pursuing more mainstream careers.
In fighting a deep recession with Keynesian stimulus policies, raising tax rates on the rich, boosting the minimum wage, and seeking to provide health care for all, the Obama Administration was pursuing a mainstream progressive agenda that virtually all Democrats support, and, to a large extent, it has worked as advertised.
