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'Lean On Me,' 'Use Me,' 'Just the Two of Us' & More: Bill Withers' Biggest Billboard Hits
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billboard.comThe late legend topped the Hot 100 with "Lean on Me." Bill Withers stands as one of R&B/soul music's most revered singer-songwriters, and over the course of his career, he forged an impressive resumé on Billboard's charts.
The three-time Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer died Monday (March 30) in Los Angeles from heart complications.
He was 81 years old. News of his passing was announced on Friday (April 3). Withers tallied 13 entries on the Billboard Hot 100, between 1971 and 1984, including his iconic friendship anthem "Lean on Me," which spent three weeks at No.
1 in 1972. The song has earned 193.7 million on-demand U.S. streams and sold 1.4 million downloads since the inception of Nielsen Music/MRC Data in 1991. "Lea
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