Larisha Paul
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US singer actress Miley Cyrus attends the premiere of Disney's "Avatar: Fire and Ash" at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood, California on December 1, 2025. VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images Miley Cyrus is ushering in a new era of her music career, signing with Atlantic Records, label home to Bruno Mars, Charli XCX, Cardi B, Kehlani, and many others, Rolling Stone has confirmed. It marks Cyrus’ exit from Columbia Records, the label she joined in 2021, with whom she released a string of hit singles including “Jaded” and “Flowers,” which won Cyrus her first Grammy Award in 2024.
Cyrus has never quite operated the way a typical pop star might be expected to, and this label switch is the latest example. Cyrus started out as a Disney artist, where her character Hannah Montana doubled as a springboard for her own pop stardom. The Disney chapter yielded one of her most iconic songs, 2009’s “Party in the U.S.A.,” whose popularity has seen several resurgences in the decade-plus since its release.
In 2013, Cyrus made the musical equivalent of an about-face, moving to RCA Records and the Sony Music umbrella for a three-album deal that included her statement-making Bangerz and its breakout hit “We Can’t Stop.” The accompanying Bangerz tour featured Cyrus at her unconventional peak. In 2024, Cyrus revealed that she funded most of the creative pieces for the show. “The Bangerz tour was an investment in myself,” she said at the time. “A lot of these ideas were kind of so outlandish that no one really wanted to support me in making these pieces.”
Not to be outdone, Cyrus released the glam-rock Plastic Hearts in 2020 before shifting labels internally to Columbia Records, where her run included 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation, and Something Beautiful in 2025. The global success of “Flowers” could have supported an equally supersized tour, but Cyrus hasn’t headlined her own outing since Bangerz and hasn’t been out on the road much at all since an 11-date festival run in 2021 and 2022. “I wish I had the desire, but I don’t,” she said last year of touring.
