Songs Similar to Lean on Me by Bill Withers
Soul & Jazz · Happy
Bill Withers's “Lean on Me” is a soul & jazz track that we file under happy songs. If it's the one you keep replaying, the list below collects tracks that fans of it also play.
The closest match right now is “Grandma's Hands” by Bill Withers (100% match). The list also pulls in Gladys Knight & The Pips, Sam Cooke, The Staple Singers and Aretha Franklin — artists whose audiences overlap heavily with Bill Withers's. By genre, the list is mostly r&b (11 of 20 tracks), with pop and rock mixed in. Each entry shows its genre and a match score, so you can start with the strongest matches and work outward. Every song links out to YouTube, Spotify and Amazon Music for a quick listen, and the ones marked as links have their own similar-song pages here.
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Data: Last.fm, updated 2026-10-11.
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FAQ about “Lean on Me”
What songs are similar to Lean on Me?
On our list, the closest matches are “Grandma's Hands” by Bill Withers, “Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?” by Bill Withers and “Let's Stay Together” by Al Green. All 20 songs on this page are ranked by how strongly their listeners overlap with fans of “Lean on Me” by Bill Withers, so the higher a song sits, the closer it is to the original's sound and audience.
Who does Lean on Me sound like?
Based on listening data, “Lean on Me” sits closest to Al Green, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Sam Cooke and The Staple Singers. Fans of Bill Withers play these artists more than almost anyone else, which usually means a shared sound, era or scene. Start with their tracks in the list above if you want something in the same vein.
Is Lean on Me Soul & Jazz?
We file “Lean on Me” by Bill Withers under Soul & Jazz. Genre labels are fuzzy, so the similar songs above aren't limited to one genre — they follow what listeners actually pair with the song.
How do you find similar songs to Lean on Me?
Use the list on this page: it ranks 20 tracks by how often fans of “Lean on Me” also listen to them. Open any song that has its own page to keep exploring, or enter another track in the similar song finder to start a new list.