Usher and Chris Brown take SoFi Stadium tonight, night two of three in Los Angeles

Usher and Chris Brown play SoFi Stadium tonight, the second of three Los Angeles dates on their co-headlining R&B Tour.

The run is thirty-three stadium shows across North America. It opened June 26 at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver and closes December 11 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, with stops in Detroit, Chicago, Toronto, Las Vegas, Houston and Miami in between. Las Vegas took two nights at Allegiant Stadium earlier this month.

Los Angeles gets three: Friday, last night, tonight, and a return to SoFi on November 15.

Three stadium nights in one market is the part worth noting. Stadium R&B was, for most of the last twenty years, treated as a contradiction — the genre filled arenas and the stadium was reserved for rock, country and pop. Two artists splitting a bill to fill SoFi three times says that assumption has quietly expired.

The tour donates one dollar from every ticket sold to the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, in a partnership with Global Citizen supporting access to education for children worldwide.

It makes for a crowded Los Angeles weekend: SoFi tonight, and the VMAs across town on Sunday.