Right from the beginning, the show became a huge sensation among kids, becoming SBT's most popular show. The cast caused mass hysteria on their trips to São Paulo to promote the soap, the auditions attracted record numbers and the albums sold in huge quantity (the first album sold over 850.000 copies while the second album was even more successful, selling over 1 million copies). Like in Argentina, the show spawned a huge quantity of licensed products and was the debut of some of Brazil's most popular young actors including Fernanda Souza, Carla Diaz, Kayky and Sthefany Brito, Bruno Gagliasso, Débora Falabella, Marcos Pasquim, Bianca Renaldi, Paulo Nigro among others.