Usher & Chris Brown Make Touring Chart History With $77.4 Million Month

Usher and Chris Brown made touring chart history together, becoming the first co-headliners to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s monthly Top Tours ranking.

“The R&B Tour” earned $77.4 million from 423,000 tickets across 10 September shows, according to Billboard Boxscore.

By the October 3 show in El Paso, Texas, their first 36 concerts had grossed $284.7 million and sold more than 1.5 million tickets. That already passed the $183.9 million earned by Usher’s “Past Present Future” tour.

The win gave Usher his first No. 1 on that chart. Brown previously led it for three straight months, from July through September 2025.

This time, the pair reached the top with less money than they made earlier in the summer. July brought in $98.4 million and August added $91.8 million. Both months put them at No. 3, behind BTS and The Weeknd.

For Usher, the stadium partnership carried a point beyond his own career. Before the opening show, he told The Associated Press that R&B deserved the same large stages as other genres.

“It’s not about me and my brother coming together,” he said. “We come together in support of our fans of R&B.”

He also described the pairing as a long-held goal that stretched back to his role supporting Brown early in the younger singer’s career.

In a separate April interview, AP asked Usher about the upcoming tour with Brown. That pre-tour clip appears below.

Live Nation announced the joint stadium run in April, after the artists teased it together on Instagram. The first schedule listed 33 dates across the United States and Canada. The tour opened June 26 at Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High.

The promoter also announced a partnership with Global Citizen, pledging $1 from each ticket sold to the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund. That commitment was intended to help children gain access to education around the world.

The show itself brought the two catalogs into one production. As AllHipHop previously reported, the singers traded sections across nine acts rather than each taking a separate full set. Mario, Eric Bellinger and Tank joined the production as backing vocalists who also performed their own hits.

The reported total remained incomplete: Billboard said four October shows had not yet been reported when it compiled the figures.