Ranking on the "Billboard" album chart as high as #174, the "Kansas" album in the months subsequent to its release in the spring of 1974 sold over 135,000 units. The platinum success of Kansas' fourth and fifth album releases: "Leftoverture" (1976) and "Point of Know Return" (1977), revived commercial interest in the band's early output, it being reported in January 1978 that both the albums "Kansas" and "Song for America" had at that point each sold between 300,000 and 400,000 units, with the third Kansas album: "Masque" (1976), having been certified Gold for sales of 500,000 units the previous month: both "Kansas" and "Song for America" would eventually be certified Gold for selling 500,000 units, "Song for America" as early as 1980 but "Kansas" not until 1995.