Commercial Performance
The album was released June 1975 on the Epic imprint-label T-Neck Records in the United States. It was also made available that same year in 8-track cartridge and cassette formats, while Epic issued an LP release for distribution in the Netherlands. The Heat Is On charted on June 14, 1975 and spent 40 weeks on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. It became the Isley Brothers' first album to hit number one on the chart, which had been considered a rare feat for a black band at the time (the only other black bands who scored a number-one album on the pop charts were their funk contemporaries The Ohio Players and Earth, Wind & Fire). The Heat Is On also peaked at number one on the Billboard Black Albums chart.
The album's first single, "Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2)" peaked at number two on the Club Play Singles chart, and the second single, "For the Love of You (Part 1 & 2)", peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Pop Singles. In its first month of release, it sold over 500,000 copies, and by 1992, it had shipped in excess of one million copies. On August 17, 1999, The Heat Is On was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), following shipments in excess of two million copies in the United States.
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