Leading
Leading adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Successful and leading are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Successful" instead an adjective "Leading".
Successful
Successful adjective - Having attained a desired end or state of good fortune.
Leading and successful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Leading" instead an adjective "Successful".
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- But if the show gets too successful, the entire channel might start making programming that is similar, easily leading to Network Decay.
Source: Network Red Headed Stepchild - Party 93.1 wasn't that popular, hence the switch to Latin...which similarly wasn't very successful, leading to the switch to Active and later Mainstream Rock.
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And Now for Someone Completely Different: After the conclusion of the first arc, we switch to Yui, who's leading a relatively successful camp of survivors.
Source: Manga / Green Worldz
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