The album went gold and received mostly positive critics, although Glišić's lyrics received mostly negative reactions, being described as banal and ineffective. PGP RTB had also made a great investment in the album promotion, with the appropriate coverage in the media, thus the songs "Crna dama", "Daire" and "Plava pesma" became nationwide hits. On September 8, 1977, the band embarked on a large promotional tour, playing the opening show in Belgrade, performing in the sold out Pionir hall, and later at the BOOM festival in Novi Sad. In Zagreb, the band promoted the album in a streetcar which circled the city and after the Zagreb performance, in front of eleven thousand people, the representatives of the Frankfurt-based record label Bellaphon Records were introduced to the band. The band signed a five-year contract for eight albums, after which Mihajlović and Aranđelović traveled to London in order to record the tracks for the English language version of "Crna dama" for the European and American markets. "Black Lady", featuring an alternate album cover, in the "Melody Maker" was reviewed as "a bad copy of Taste and Deep Purple", however, it received a positive review in "Guitar Player". In the annual poll the readers of the "Džuboks" magazine selected Smak as the best band in 1977 and the band got the best album, cover, single, guitarist, bassist and drummer.