Chris Brown will mark two decades in the music biz when his Breezy Bowl XX brings him to Ford Field on Aug. 8.
The Ford Field date will be the R&B star’s biggest show yet in Detroit, long one of Brown’s premier U.S. markets. The three-month, 30-city tour will play arenas and stadiums across Europe and North America, and Brown will be joined in Detroit by openers Summer Walker and Bryson Tiller.
Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. April 3 through Ticketmaster. A presale window will start on Tuesday, and registration is open now through 10 p.m. Sunday for access to those early tickets.
The Ford Field show will be Brown’s third Detroit concert in 14 months, following a Little Caesars Arena headlining show last summer and his scheduled LCA performance next month as part of the star-studded Tycoon Festival with Wiz Khalifa and others.
Breezy Bowl XX is billed as an anniversary tour celebrating 20 years since Brown’s self-titled debut album thrust him into the limelight as a teen singer-dancer.
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In 2009, after he was convicted of assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna, Brown returned to smaller venues — including spots such as the Royal Oak Music Theatre — before steadily rebuilding his career and moving back into arenas.
The new Live Nation tour comes in the wake of his Grammy-winning album, “11:11,” whose hit single “Residuals” recently sparked a viral phenomenon that found other high-profile artists covering the song.
Brown’s Ford Field show is now the seventh concert night booked at the Detroit Lions’ stadium this year, joining AC/DC (April 30), Post Malone-Jelly Roll (May 30), the Weeknd (May 24-25), Kendrick Lamar (June 10) and Billy Joel-Stevie Nicks (Nov. 15).
It’s part of a busy 2025 stadium schedule that includes a pair of Comerica Park tour stops — the Jonas Brothers (Aug. 28) and the Lumineers (Sept. 13) — and a potentially history-making Michigan Stadium concert by Zach Bryan on Sept. 27.
Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or [email protected].
