Breakout is the second album by American teen pop singer Miley Cyrus, and her first musical work apart from Hannah Montana. It was released under Hollywood Records on July 22, 2008, in the United States and debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of about 371,000 copies.
On October 17, 2008, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA for more than 1 million copies shipped in the U.S.
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Breakout is the second album by American teen pop singer Miley Cyrus, and her first musical work apart from Hannah Montana. It was released under Hollywood Records on July 22, 2008, in the United States and debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of about 371,000 copies.
On October 17, 2008, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA for more than 1 million copies shipped in the U.S.
Breakout is the first album by Miley Cyrus that does not have any affiliation to the Hannah Montana character. Cyrus has said that Meet Miley Cyrus was "just meeting me, finding out who I am", while Breakout was inspired by "what's been going on in my life in the past year." "I wanted to embrace my older audience a little more, kind of taking shackles off and doing the music I wanted to do," Cyrus said of Breakout. Cyrus co-wrote all but four songs on the album. "Songwriting is what I really want to do with my life forever, [...] I just hope this record showcases that...
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