Usher & Chris Brown Bring R&B to No. 1 on Monthly Boxscore Report
Categoria: Musica
The R&B Tour was the highest-grossing and best-selling tour of September.
Por Billboard | 29/10/2026
Since Billboard launched the monthly Boxscore charts in 2019, all types of acts have been No. 1 on the Top Tours chart. Men ( Elton John was first in February 2019), women ( P!nk followed the next month) and mixed-gender groups ( RBD in November 2023); stars of pop, rock, R&B, country, Latin, rap, K-pop, and more. Solo artists and collectives – vocal groups like BTS and Spice Girls , bands like The Rolling Stones and Coldplay , and institutional touring ensembles like Trans-Siberian Orchestra . But in its 75th edition, ranking the biggest touring acts of September 2026, for the first time, co-headliners top the chart. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Usher and Chris Brown ’s The R&B Tour grossed $77.4 million and sold 423,000 tickets across 10 shows in September, making it the highest-grossing and best-selling tour of the month. They are the first pair of artists to share the No. 1 spot on the chart. Usher and Brown came close earlier this summer, landing at No. 3 in July and August, blocked by BTS and The Weeknd in both months. And in the last seven years, other co-headline duos have come even closer. Def Leppard and Motley Crue ’s double-bill was No. 2 in Aug. 2022, held back by Bad Bunny . Red Hot Chili Peppers and Post Malone were runners-up in Jan. and Feb. 2023, stopped short by Elton John and Ed Sheeran , respectively. And last year, Kendrick Lamar and SZA scored silver in April and May 2025, bested by Coldplay and then by Beyoncé . September marks Usher’s first month at No. 1, having previously climbed as high as No. 3 as a soloist in Sept. and Oct. 2024. Brown returns to the top exactly one year after last reigning. He scored a record-tying trifecta with three straight months from July-Sept. 2025. Only Bad Bunny and Beyoncé have also been No. 1 for as many consecutive months. Usher and Brown’s monthly gross and attendance decline from their July and August takes, despite peaking in monthly rank. In July, The R&B Tour earned $98.4 million and sold 538,000 tickets and in August, it brought in $91.8 million and sold 465,000. At $77.4 million and 423,000 for September, they are the first No. 1 since April to gross less than $100 million as the summer stadium season winds down in North America. The R&B Tour began the month at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Sept. 1 and ended in Glendale, Ariz.’s State Farm Stadium on the 29th. In between, they hit Las Vegas, Arlington, Texas (Dallas-area) and Inglewood, Calif. (Los Angeles). On the Top Boxscores chart, the latter three line up at Nos. 6-8 while the month’s single-night bookends fall just below the 30-position chart. Since kicking off on June 26 in Denver, The R&B Tour grossed $284.7 million and sold more than 1.5 million tickets in its first 36 shows, current through the Oct. 3 date in El Paso, Texas. It’s a stone’s throw away from becoming Brown’s biggest tour ever, approaching the $295.5 million of last year’s Breezy Bowl XX. It’s already got