Duran Duran personified new wave for much of the mainstream audience. Their reputation was built through music videos, which accentuated their fashion-model looks and glamorous sense of style. Each video the group made was distinctive, incorporating a number of cinematic styles to showcase the band as either part of the jet-setting elite (""Rio"") or as worldly adventurers (""Hungry Like the Wolf""). Between 1982 and 1984, they rocketed from underground British post-punk sensations to teen idols. 1981, Duran Duranbecame the leaders of the new romantic movement, and media sensations in the British music and mainstream press. The group's popularity increased through it's cutting-edge music videos, especially the bizarre, racy clip for ""Girls on Film. "" the single became the group's first Top Ten hit, setting the stage for the fall release of it's eponymous debut album. Duran Duranreached number three upon it's release and stayed in the charts for 118 weeks.