Usher and Chris Brown cancel two more stadium nights, and six of the eight shows they added in August are now gone

Two of the biggest nights left on Usher and Chris Brown’s R&B Tour have disappeared from the calendar. The fourth show at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, set for 16 November, and the third at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, set for 6 December, were marked as cancelled on Ticketmaster on Wednesday, US time.

That makes six cancelled shows on the co-headlining run. All six were part of the expansion Live Nation announced on 17 August, which added eight dates and took the tour to 59 shows. Only two of those eight extra nights are still going ahead, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and Atlanta.

No one has explained the latest two cancellations. Usher, Brown and the promoter have made no public statement on them, and refunds are going back to the card or account used to buy the tickets.

What happened to the first four shows?

In October the tour dropped dates in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Columbia in South Carolina, and Indianapolis. The promoter said at the time it had made “the difficult decision to cancel select upcoming dates”, citing the health and wellbeing of the touring party and crew. “The demands of a tour of this length and scale are significant,” it said.

That explanation was given for the October cancellations. It has not been repeated or extended to the Los Angeles and Miami nights.

Is this about a feud?

There is no confirmation that it is. Reports of a backstage disagreement between the two headliners at their run of Atlanta shows have spread online this week, but neither camp has confirmed them, and nothing on the record links them to the cancelled dates. Until Usher, Brown or the promoter says otherwise, the only known reason for any cancellation remains the October statement about the tour’s workload.

Why do these two dates matter?

These were not small rooms. SoFi Stadium is one of the largest venues in American music, and the tour had already booked it for three nights before adding a fourth. Hard Rock Stadium was similarly given a third night in August. Adding extra stadium nights is a promoter’s bet that demand will fill them. Here, six of the eight additions have now been pulled, while the original nights in the same cities stay on sale.

For fans holding tickets to the cancelled shows, the practical answer is simple: the refund should arrive without any action on their part, though resale and transferred tickets can follow different rules depending on where they were bought. Refunds through Ticketmaster usually take two to three weeks to land, depending on the bank.

Is there an Australian leg?

No. The R&B Tour is a North American stadium run, and there are no Australian or New Zealand dates. Australian fans who travelled or planned to travel for the Los Angeles or Miami nights should check the original booking for refund details, and any flights or hotels booked separately will fall under those providers’ own terms.

Who is still on stage?

The pair were due to finish a five-night stand at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on 11 November, US time. After that the tour moves on to Inglewood, New Orleans, Houston and Miami before closing at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on 12 December.

VNN will update this story as more is confirmed.