Soon, they signed with BMG Ricordi and started to mix their rap with pop music, obtaining great success and popularity.

The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.

Ditka's success and popularity in Chicago has led him to land analyst roles on various American football pregame shows.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Recent popularity has been increased with the Irish Wolfhound's success in the Rugby League World Cup which was held in Australia in 2008.

Bowie reached a new peak of popularity and commercial success in 1983 with Let's Dance.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).

His first three books gained much contemporary attention ( the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller ), and after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime.

After the success of travelogues based on voyages to the South Seas and stories based on misadventures in the merchant marine and navy, Melville's popularity declined dramatically.

Britain's continued success in the war boosted the song's popularity.

As in prior weak financial markets and prolonged economic slowdowns, hedge funds again lost popularity during the downturn of the 1970s but received renewed attention in the late 1980s, following the success of several funds profiled in the media.

Hatfield's popularity coincided with the success, in the mid-1990s, of many other female alternative rock musicians.

It was the IBM PC's first " killer application "; its huge popularity in the mid-1980s contributed significantly to the success of the IBM PC in the corporate environment.

During his time with the club, Beckham's popularity across Asia was integral to the club's commercial success in that part of the world.

The film has become a cult classic, and has enjoyed great popularity since Jackson's success with the Lord of the Rings films.

This success can be attributed to a more assertive National Party image ( a differentation to that of the Liberals ) and the growing popularity of state and federal Nationals identities such as Barnaby Joyce.

Despite the lesser radio play and popularity, some nu metal bands still gain commercial success.

" Nirvana's success opened the door to mainstream popularity for a wide range of other " left-of-the-dial " acts, such as Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and fueled the alternative rock boom of the early and mid-1990s.

Increasing in readership and popularity throughout the remainder of the 1840s and 1850s, Punch was the success story of a threepenny weekly paper that had become one of the most talked-about and enjoyed periodicals.

Plautus attained such a popularity that his name alone became a hallmark of theatrical success.

Design innovations continued during the years of manufacture, contributing to its motorsports success and popularity.

While invented long before, the practice of including music with the entrance gained rapid popularity during the 1980s, largely as a result of the huge success of Hulk Hogan and the WWF, and their Rock ' n ' Wrestling Connection.

The popularity of her number-one hit " With Every Heartbeat " and subsequent international album release Robyn ( 2005 ) in 2007 brought her mainstream success worldwide.

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

The Nagoya Protocol ’ s success will require effective implementation at the domestic level.

Since the success of the 1993 Buksefjord dam, whose distribution path to Nuuk includes the Ameralik Span the long-term policy of the Greenland government is to produce the island's electricity from renewable domestic sources.

That success did not last long, as post-war domestic problems, Albanian resistance, and pressure from United States President Woodrow Wilson, forced Italy to pull out in 1920.

Despite the success in domestic cups, Liverpool was 17th in the table over the second half of the season to finish the season eighth, their worst showing in the league since 1994, failing to qualify for Europe's Champions League for a third straight season.

Based on the success of the Niva, the design department prepared a new family of front-wheel drive models by 1984, which was of a completely domestic design.

Financial resources are allocated to eligible countries based on their success at implementing pro-growth and a poverty-reducing domestic policies.

One possible explanation for this might be the small amount of domestic cattle genes that are now in most bison populations, though this isn't the only possible explanation for bison success.

Budgeted at US $ 11. 0 million, the film became a financial and critical success, resulting in a domestic box office total of US $ 9. 1 million and various accolades for DiCaprio, who was awarded the National Board of Review Award and nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his portrayal.

A minor arthouse success, the film grossed US $ 0. 34 million throughout its domestic theatrical run.

Historian Alan Brinkley has suggested that the most important domestic achievement of the Great Society may have been its success in translating some of the demands of the civil rights movement into law.

The following season Milan built on their domestic success by adding the European Cup to their list of honours.

More focus was being placed on domestic signings, and phenomenal success was achieved by INXS, Cold Chisel, 1927 and Jenny Morris, to name a few.

Scot Symon continued Struth's success, winning six league championships, five Scottish Cups and four League Cups, becoming the second manager to win the domestic treble in season 1963 – 64, the era of ' Slim ' Jim Baxter, one of the club's greatest players.

Emerging from the shadows of Jock Stein's Celtic side, Rangers regained ascendency with notable domestic success under the stewardship of manager Jock Wallace.

Treading a path similar to other British labels of the era, Parlophone released all manner of domestic and foreign licensed product, including James Brown, but had little success in comparison to EMI siblings HMV and Columbia.

Fassbinder scored his first domestic commercial success with The Merchant of Four Seasons ( Händler der vier Jahreszeiten, 1971 ).

However, his novel Mildred Pierce ( 1941 ) is really about the rise to success of an ordinary housewife developing her entrepreneurial skills and — legally — outsmarting her business rivals, and the domestic trouble caused by her success, with, in turn, her husband, her daughter and her lover turning against her.

By 1968, all UEFA member nations had set up domestic cup competitions due to the success of the Cup Winners ' Cup which by then had firmly established itself as Europe's second most prestigious club competition.

The movie was a box office success with a domestic gross of $ 182, 811, 707 and a worldwide gross of $ 374, 111, 707, against a budget of $ 70 million.

However Pinocchio was not a financial success since World War II ( which began in 1939 ) had cut off 40 % of Disney's foreign release market and although it was a moderate success in the United States the domestic gross alone was not enough to make back its revenue.

His many-sided talents achieved success in all forms of writing, but his domestic, philosophical and critical works have long ceased to occupy attention.