13 months after "Caravanserai", Santana released "Welcome". "Welcome" was the first of four consecutive albums to achieve gold certification, as opposed to the previous four, which all at least reached platinum status. The album peaked at number 25 on the "Billboard" 200, the lowest of the band's career so far. The next few albums contained a more experimental style than their previous work, beginning with "Borboletta", which fared arguably worse than its predecessor, despite climbing five spots higher on the Billboard album charts in the US.