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Streams of Bill Withers‘ iconic hit ‘Lean On Me’ have increased by more than 700 percent after the singer’s death last week.
The soul icon’s music scores 22.1 million on-demand streams across audio and video in the U.S. on April 3-5 – a rising of 780% compared to 2.5 million on March 31-April 2.
Of the tracks played, ‘Lean On Me’ proved to be the most popular – with the 1972 track garnering 4.1 million plays, a rise of 729% from 496,000 recorded in the last week.
The track was Withers’ only No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and topped the chart for three weeks upon release.
Other popular songs included ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’, which scored 2.7 million streams, ‘Use Me’ – which recorded 1.5 million, and ‘Just the Two of Us’ – with the Grover Washington collaboration collecting 1.4 million streams.
Earlier this week, Portugal.The Man shared their emotional cover of ‘Lovely Day’ in tribute to Withers. It followed Christine & The Queens, who shared her powerful A’Capella cover of Withers’ ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ over the weekend.
A wide array of other musical figures, including Jennifer Hudson, Lenny Kravitz Nile Rodgers and Brian Wilson, also paid tribute in the wake of Withers’ death.
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