Usher & Chris Brown Cancel The December 6 Miami Show — Six Dates Gone From The R&B Tour
One night after Usher and Chris Brown hugged it out on stage in Atlanta, their R&B Tour lost another stadium date.
The December 6 show at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens has been canceled — Ticketmaster issued the notice to ticket holders, with no reason given, and fans who bought tickets do not need to take any action to get refunded. The cancellation follows the November 16 date at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, which was pulled earlier this week. That makes SIX canceled shows on the tour: Baltimore (October 17), Cincinnati (October 24), Columbia, South Carolina (October 29) and Indianapolis (October 31) all came off the books in October, before Los Angeles and now Miami followed in November.
The four October cancellations were blamed on the crew’s health and wellness. A statement at the time said the demands of a tour of this length and scale are significant, and that the adjustments would allow the tour to continue safely and sustainably through the remaining scheduled performances. No official explanation has been given for the Los Angeles or Miami cancellations — and it is worth stating plainly: nobody involved has said the reported tension between the two stars caused any of these dates to be pulled.
The reported tension is real enough as a story line, though. Per TMZ sources, the two got into a heated backstage argument during the Atlanta stop on November 5 — Usher wanted to start the show on time, Chris Brown wanted to hold it for fans stuck in traffic, and the disagreement pushed the concert back about two hours. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called that night a very late, underwhelming concert, and the two did not perform together that night the way they had on earlier dates. Neither Usher nor Chris Brown has confirmed any feud.
Which is what makes this week so hard to read. Just last night (Tuesday, November 10), on Night 4 in Atlanta, the two embraced on stage in footage fans filmed themselves — new footage, not a recycled clip. Twenty-four hours later, another stadium date is gone.
What is still standing: the tour closes out its Atlanta run tonight (November 11), then New Orleans on November 20 and 21, Houston on November 24, and Miami is NOT done — the December 3 and December 5 Hard Rock Stadium shows are still on sale. The run is scheduled to wrap in Tampa on December 11 and 12.
Two kings of R&B, one hug, and six canceled stadium dates. Is this tour in trouble, or is this just what a stadium run of this size looks like when it starts shedding dates?
Sources: Variety (cancellations); Ticketmaster (December 6 cancellation notice; remaining dates); TMZ (backstage argument, reported by its sources); Atlanta Journal-Constitution (November 5 Atlanta show review).
