Latest Release
- MAY 17, 2024
- 1 Song
- Party In the U.S.A. - Single · 2009
- COWBOY CARTER · 2024
- Endless Summer Vacation · 2023
- Bangerz (Deluxe Version) · 2013
- Bangerz (Deluxe Version) · 2013
- Bangerz (Deluxe Version) · 2013
- Plastic Hearts · 2020
- Everyone's Getting Involved · 2024
- Younger Now · 2017
- Hannah Montana: The Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2009
Essential Albums
- Finally, with album number four, fans could see the real Miley Cyrus. The former Disney star said so herself, disowning her previous work and declaring 2013’s Bangerz her first official album. Gone are the days of Hannah Montana and “Party In the U.S.A.” Her 2010 LP, Can’t Be Tamed, hinted that she “can get a bit crazy,” a quality the closet provocateur fully realizes with this release. As wild as Cyrus portrays herself, though, her transformation was strategic, down to the twerking on live television and the swinging nude on a wrecking ball. She may have courted the controversy, but she also had the pop prowess and the pipes to deliver some of the decade’s most memorable hits. The album’s “We Can’t Stop”—a woozy glimpse into the singer’s partying lifestyle—reached No. 2 on the charts, and “Wrecking Ball” became her first No. 1 single. No longer bound to the Disney-owned Hollywood Records, Cyrus felt free to chase after her wildest whims, which included bringing in an impressive list of collaborators to join in the revelry. Britney Spears shows up on the brassy dance-floor rouser “SMS (Bangerz),” which samples Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It” and has the two pop firebrands swapping cheeky raps, with Miley slipping in her best mic drop yet: “Why I need his millis when I got Billy on the speed dial?” She also embraces her country roots on the irresistible stomper “4X4,” featuring a cool and collected verse by Nelly, before jumping back into the hot, sweaty club with Big Sean on the wobbly “Love Money Party.” Even with the VIP guest list, Miley is never overshadowed. If anything, Bangerz is the first major showcase of her robust vocal range, which she uses to potent effect on the album’s hard-hitting moments—mostly, those inspired by her (first) failed romance with actor Liam Hemsworth. There is the towering torch song “Adore You” and the raw cabaret sizzler “FU,” in which she belts out the devastating opening line, “Oh, you broke my heart.” And then there’s “Wrecking Ball,” the gut-wrenching breakup ballad (and its risqué video) that manages to be both poignant and provocative—Miley’s most intoxicating combination.
Albums
- 2017
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023
Artist Playlists
- The sound of confounded expectations has never been filled with more pop hooks.
- The former Hannah Montana grows up in front of the camera.
- Keep your workout energized with a set of Miley’s bangerz.
- From puppy love to grown-up regret.
- Shapeshifting pop with hip-hop bite and a touch of twang.
- The pop star’s darkest doozies and wildest bangerz.
Live Albums
More To Hear
- The artists on their song “Doctor (Work It Out).”
- Techno-pop notched Miley Cyrus her first No. 1 in almost a decade.
- “Wrecking Ball” is as much about love as it is about her reinvention.
- The artist details the creation of her seventh studio album.
- Miley Cyrus on her song "Prisoner" with Dua Lipa.
- Miley revisits pivotal moments and music from her career.
About Miley Cyrus
“I think there’s a time in every artist’s life [when] they have to do something that isn’t for fans, isn’t for success, isn’t for touring,” Miley Cyrus told Apple Music in 2018. Cyrus could’ve been speaking about any number of moments from her profoundly varied career. Born Destiny Hope Cyrus—the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus—in Tennessee in 1992, the innovative artist has hardly stayed in one lane for more than a single album since she broke from the bubblegum pop that catapulted her to stardom as Disney’s Hannah Montana. Her 2009 summer anthem “Party In the U.S.A.” earned her a rapid ascent within the pop world, where 2013’s Bangerz—which showcased her musical maturity with “Wrecking Ball” and experimented with elements of Dirty South hip-hop—made her an icon. Vocal about her pansexuality and love for marijuana, Cyrus has worked hard to shed her wholesome teen image, and simultaneously defied odds by earning a reputation for an intense work ethic and an unshakable self-assuredness. She headed to left-field with the psych-tinged 2015 album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, a collaboration with members of The Flaming Lips, and with 2017’s Younger Now, a countrified pop offering that featured godmother Dolly Parton. And she's teamed up with rappers Mike Will Made It and will.i.am, Sarah Barthel of electronic rock group Phantogram, and, in 2018, Mark Ronson for the dramatic hit single “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart.” Those frequent partnerships have been major catalysts in the creation of Cyrus' diverse catalog and in the cementing of her status as a pop pace-setter by refusing to let it, or herself, be easily defined.
- HOMETOWN
- Franklin, TN, United States
- BORN
- November 23, 1992
- GENRE
- Pop