
Wet the bed, because Grammy Award-winning R&B giants Chris Brown and Usher have confirmed dates for their joint “R&B” (Raymond and Brown) stadium tour, which wraps up at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium.
Last Friday, the duo soft-launched the 33-date tour through a social media video, showing them zipping through city streets on motorcycles before arriving together at a stadium and stepping onto the field.
Brown—who was arrested in West Palm Beach on a Hillsborough County battery warrant in 2018—spent last year on a record-breaking tour, largely in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his debut album releasing. Per a press release, that run of shows (which brought a 50-song set to RayJay last August) ended up becoming “the highest-grossing tour ever by a solo Black American male artist, earning nearly $300 million” across the U.S. and Europe.
And before this new run of shows came to fruition, Usher Raymond IV also found himself on the road for a few months last year. The 47-year-old played a handful of arenas across the pond to cap off his wildly successful “Past Present Future” tour, which followed a series of post-Super Bowl LVIII shows in the U.S. the year before.
While Brown seems to pop into town fairly often, it’s been almost a decade since Usher’s last local gig, which was a free concert at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, part of the College Football Championship’s 2017 arrival in Tampa.
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This article appears in Apr. 09 – 15, 2026.

