a huge commercial success in Yugoslavia, the songs "Tako ti je, mala moja, kad ljubi Bosanac", "Došao sam da ti kažem da odlazim", "Ne gledaj me tako i ne ljubi me više" and "Požurite, konji moji" becoming nationwide hits and the album selling more than 200,000 copies. After the first 50,000 records sold, Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu became the first Yugoslav album to be credited as a diamond record. After selling more than 100,000 copies, it became the first platinum record in the history of Yugoslav discography, and after reaching the 200,000 copies mark it was branded simply as "2× diamond record". New Year's performance for Tito Right after the album's release, its initial promotion was scheduled to take place at a New Year's 1976 concert at Belgrade Sprts Hall along with Pop Mašina, Buldožer and Cod as opening acts. However, five days before New Year's, the band canceled the concert due to getting invited to perform for Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito at the Croatian National Theatre (HNK) in Zagreb as part of the New Year's celebration. The performance for the eighty-three-year-old president did not go according to what the band had expected, as recounted by Bregović in various media appearances after the dissolution of Yugoslavia: In the years since, Bebek also looked back on the band's performance for Tito. In 1976, months after the performance, he wrote for Džuboks mgazine about the personal feelings the event stirred in him. In the published piece, the singer expresses exhilaration at getting the opportunity to perform for "the most respected and dearest guest" while drawing parallels to the excitement of his only prior in-person sighting of Tito during his adolescence at the Relay of Youth running in Sarajevo. However, during a 2018 television interview, he recalled Bijelo Dugme's performance for Tito much differently: There have been reports in Yugoslav press that Bijelo Dugme's performance for Tito may have had something, at least in part, with the band manager Mihaljek's sudden firing that occurred weeks prior. Mihaljek reportedly got contacted in December 1975 by Tito's representatives from the Yugoslav presidential protocol who weren't aware about him no longer representing the band. Knowing that Bijelo Dugme had already been booked for a lucrative New Year's show in Belgrade and being aware that a verbal commitment to the Yugoslav Presidency would have to be honoured one way or another (even