Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus song) Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus song) "Wrecking Ball" is a song recorded by American singer Miley Cyrus for her fourth studio album "Bangerz" (2013). It was released on August 25, 2013, by RCA Records as the album's second single. The song was written by MoZella, Stephan Moccio, Sacha Skarbek, Kiyanu Kim, Lukasz Gottwald, and Henry Russell Walter; production was helmed by the last two. "Wrecking Ball" is a pop ballad which lyrically discusses the deterioration of a relationship. "Wrecking Ball" debuted on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 at number 50, and later became Cyrus' first number-one single in the United States
Miley Cyrus Music's Hottest Minors of 2010, and was ranked number twenty-one on the 2011, and number eighteen on the 2012 version of the list. In May 2013, "Maxim" ranked Cyrus first on their Hot 100 of the year. Cyrus was chosen by "Time" as one of their finalists for Person of the Year in November 2013. She came in third place with 16.3% of the vote. In March 2014, Skidmore College, New York started offering a special topics sociology course entitled "The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender and Media" which was "using Miley as a lens through which to