Miley Cyrus claps back after her new album was one of the biggest flops of the year

Miley Cyrus has had a weird year for her music career. Her last album, 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation, saw her finally win the Grammy for Flowers and see huge commercial success. She’s an artist we all grew up with and eternally want the best for, one of the best vocalists of all time and someone with so much star power she literally seems unshakeable. How bizarre then, that with so much fanfare that it literally had an accompanying film released in cinemas to go with it. And yet Something Beautiful totally flopped – no hit and shocking sales for a Miley Cyrus album. Now Miley Cyrus has clapped back after her album Something Beautiful flopped and she’s fuming. Fair enough.

Miley says she doesn’t want to make ‘music based off numbers’

‘we want to make impactful music not music based off numbers.’ Yes Miley!! pic.twitter.com/WW5LMzXBw3

— Miley Cyrus Updates (@MileyCyrusBz) September 2, 2025

In a new interview where the female members of the Cyrus family were interviewed and profiled by The Cut – Miley sat with her mother Tish and her sisters Brandi and Noah and spoke in length about the frivolity of how people obsess over numbers when discussing success of music.

Miley explained “We want to make impactful music and not music based off numbers.” She then asks Noah “Do you know what number that song was on a chart? I don’t. It doesn’t matter, but it gave you a memory that no number could ever replace or make more important. In today’s world, music comes and goes so fast. There aren’t many songs that are released today that have the kind of impact because they’re just so disposable and fast.

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“I always think music should be about memories and not about numbers. Like, who cares? I don’t know what Neil Diamond, I don’t know any track from Neil Diamond what it was on a chart. Nothing from Bob Seger. Nothing from anyone we’ve said. I don’t know what the number was.”

Miley’s mother Tish then says “Well, back then it didn’t matter.” Miley Cyrus then declares “Numbers are for math, not music.”

For context, Something Beautiful dropped in May. It had no hit single, and debuted with 44,000 sales copies. Compare this to Endless Summer Vacation, which had 119,000. You can see why Miley Cyrus promptly clapped back after her new album Something Beautiful flopped – because if she’s happy with the art she made then that’s all that matters.

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