This is still show business, and everything can turn on a single, unexpected hit.
It became an unexpected hit, "the sort of record that any bar in a black neighborhood wanted on its jukebox".
A recording he made in Chicago months before has become a sudden, unexpected hit.
The toy, made by Summit Products, was an unexpected hit last year, selling out nationwide.
But knitting has turned out to be an unexpected hit.
Mavado with an unexpected but very inspiring big hit!
An unexpected hit, the film took in $57 million at the box office and was later turned into a television series.
The syndicated daytime talk show, which appears five times a week, has been an unexpected hit.
Then in 1956, he was the unexpected hit of a vaudeville show in Casablanca.
A year after its release, the album yielded an unexpected hit single.