Chris Brown Hits New Career Heights at No. 1 on Monthly Boxscore Report

Until now, lone 3 artists deed No. 1 connected Billboard’s monthly Top Tours illustration passim 2025. Coldplay ruled successful January and April. In between, Shakira led for February and March. Before summertime officially hit, Beyoncé kicked disconnected the play with a uncommon three-peat, ruling implicit May, June and July. But arsenic the August recap rolls out, a caller sanction sits atop the chart: Chris Brown has the highest-grossing and best-selling circuit of August.

According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Brown’s 14 shows successful August grossed $96.8 cardinal and sold 590,000 tickets. That’s capable for his archetypal period astatine No. 1. His lone anterior apical 10 appearances were back-to-back showings astatine No. 8 past summertime portion connected The 11:11 Tour.

What caused Brown’s abrupt spike to the top? His 2025 tour, Breezy Bowl XX, elevated the R&B superstar from arenas to shot stadiums, tripling the sellable capableness for each of his shows.

But his August gross is inactive a monolithic betterment upon his stadium show successful June connected the European limb of this tour, erstwhile helium ranked astatine No. 12. Brown, similar astir different R&B and hep hop acts, is simply a overmuch bigger gully stateside than internationally. Plus, summons prices are overmuch much elastic for home shows, careless of genre. And compared to 11 shows successful Europe successful June, helium played 14 successful the U.S. and Canada successful August, maximizing his full scope to astir 600,000 fans.

Not lone is this a caller highest for Brown himself, helium enters uncommon abstraction for R&B acts. He is lone the 2nd specified creator to crown Top Tours, pursuing 7 wins for Beyoncé, dispersed betwixt 2023 and 2025. But 3 of Queen Bey’s victories were for this year’s Cowboy Carter Tour, which notably became the highest-grossing state tour successful Boxscore past erstwhile it wrapped earlier this summer. That makes Breezy Bowl XX the archetypal R&B circuit to conquer the database since the Renaissance World Tour successful September 2023.

The item of Brown’s August was a double-header astatine MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, N.J., with $15 cardinal and 107,000 tickets connected Aug. 12-13. Stops successful Detroit, Toronto and Atlanta besides pulled eight-figure grosses with 2 shows apiece. Those 4 cities landed him astatine Nos. 9-11 and 14 connected Top Boxscores.

Breezy Bowl XX is head-and-shoulders Brown’s biggest circuit yet. Through Sept. 27, the circuit has brought successful $241.4 cardinal and sold 1.7 cardinal tickets. That marks a 193% summation implicit the gross of The 11:11 Tour ($82.3 million) and a 270% leap implicit its attendance (446,000).

Still, Brown has much state successful the tank. Breezy Bowl XX has 7 much shows scheduled earlier wrapping successful Memphis, Tenn. connected Oct. 18. Based of the $7 cardinal per-show mean successful North America, helium should adhd different $45-50 cardinal successful the adjacent 3 weeks. At $457 cardinal successful vocation grosses, helium could transverse the half-billion mark.

Three acts travel intimately successful some grosses and attendance. Coldplay is No. 2 connected Top Tours, portion The Weeknd and Ed Sheeran clump up astatine Nos. 3-4, respectively. All 3 acts wrapped their 2025 schedules successful the archetypal week of September, perchance clearing abstraction astatine the apical of the illustration for adjacent month’s recap.

Coldplay grossed $85.4 cardinal successful August, mostly from its marathon tally astatine London’s Wembley Stadium. The archetypal six shows fell during August, landing astatine No. 1 connected Top Boxscores. The last 4 shows person yet to beryllium reported and volition interaction the September listing. The Music of the Spheres World Tour is the best-selling trek successful history, astatine 12.8 cardinal tickets done Aug. 31, with more dates teased successful 2027.

August marks The Weeknd’s 4th consecutive period successful the apical 10, aft hitting No. 2 successful June and July. The After Hours Til Dawn Tour is the biggest R&B circuit ever, with much dates announced for 2026.

Sheeran rounds retired the precocious echelon with $75 cardinal and 583,000 tickets. In aboriginal September, helium wrapped The Mathematics Tour aft playing stadiums astir the satellite since 2022. His erstwhile tour, The Divide Tour became the biggest circuit of each clip erstwhile it wrapped successful 2019, but this 1

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