It became a sizeable and surprising hit in 2001.

One of my favourite novels ever and a surprising hit with undergraduate students.

The song was a surprising hit which made Hijazi follow it up with a second single, "Rayyah Ballak".

Reality specials usually grab audiences, but even by those standards "Wildest Police Videos" is a surprising hit.

The song was popular with critics and fans; Allmusic's Amy Hanson called it a "somewhat surprising hit".

I can do star-jumps' was a surprising hit on the American aerobics circuit in 2005.

It was a surprising hit for the former Beatle, who had not enjoyed a mainstream number 1 hit in nearly 15 years.

It was a surprising hit with the American public, though sales were limited to some Northwestern states initially.

With an ageing population ebooks could be a surprising hit with the old as well as the visually impaired.

A surprising hit was the coconut calamari, which we ordered more from a sense of duty than of pleasurable anticipation.