Lead! Heat! Beat! took the No. 15 spot on the weekly Oricon Albums Charts and remained on the charts for four consecutive weeks.[1] It was released a year after their previous album, Brand New Era, released at the end of August 2004. Before its release, the album garnered three singles: the double A-side "Tenohira o Taiyō ni / Delighted",[2] the spring ballad "Atarashii Kisetsu e"[3] and the summer pop song "Baby Running Wild".[4]
As with their previous albums, the album was only released as a standard CD, not carrying a CD+DVD counterpart.[5] Instead, the music videos were later placed on their third compilation DVDMovies 3, which was released three years later on August 6, 2008.[6] Unlike their previous albums, Lead! Heat! Beat! was not given a limited edition version.
It became their first album to contain both a prelude and an outro, which were different renditions of "Rock the House!!". Along with the new tracks on the album, it also included a remix of "Baby Running Wild" as track #15.
On December 7, 2005, they would release their second concert DVD, which corresponding with the album Lead Live Tour Upturn 2005.
