Bill Withers Leads R&B Songwriters Chart, Powered by 'Lean on Me' & 'Ain't No Sunshine'
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billboard.comBill Withers, who died of heart complications on March 30, leads Billboard's R&B Songwriters chart (dated April 18) for the first time, as two of his iconic hits debut on the Hot R&B Songs chart."Ain't No Sunshine," which he solely wrote, and "Lean on Me," which he co-wrote with Ray Jackson, debut at Nos.
6 and 7, respectively, on Hot R&B Songs.The tracks are concurrently the top-selling hits in the U.S., as "Lean on Me" takes over the No.
1 spot on Billboard's all-genre Digital Song Sales chart (with 28,000 sold, up 3,308%, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data) and "Ain't No Sunshine" surges to No.
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