Two questions are probably springing to mind here, did this really only make number 40? and did this really not come out until 2009?
The record was originally from 1971, a time when Bill Withers was yet to have a Top 40 hit in the UK. There was however a version by Michael Jackson that made the Top 10 in 1972. Bill Withers had his first Top 40 hit that year with "Lean On Me" and then with "Lovely Day" in 1978.
By 2009 a record could get into charts purely on downloads. On the TV show Britain's Got Talent one of the contestants sang "Ain't No Sunshine". That performance had enough of an impact for the general public to go and download the Bill Withers original version and as a result it made the Top 40.
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