Miley Cyrus’ ‘Endless Summer Vacation’ tops iTunes charts

Miley Cyrus’ long-awaited album ‘Endless Summer Vacation’ has finally arrived and fans and critics are loving it. The album quickly climbed to the top of iTunes real-time sales chart securing the number one spot.

According to Metacritic, a website that gathers online reviews of music and compiles them to create an average total score, ‘Endless Summer Vacation’ has earned itself a score of 81 out of 100.

Metacritic also allows users to rate albums and compiles an average review based on fan opinion. Cyrus’ new album received an 8.2 out of 10 in this category, out of 173 ratings.

What are the critics saying?

Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos called it Cryus’ “sharpest, most independent album yet” and “a powerful artistic statement focused and clear-eyed as Curus seems to have found herself in her thirties.”

The Independent gave ‘Endless Summer Vacation’ a strong four stars and describes it as “isn’t really a festival record. It’s the sunbather’s choice. A lovely long bask in Cyrus’s maturing talent.”

The Guardian also ranked the album four out of five stars. The outlet praises the album for its “naturalness and a flow in evidence, and charm, too.” Before concluding with,  “You can’t imagine anyone who rushed to the download sites was disappointed with what they found.”

NME kept the winning streak going with another four stars rating. Web Editor Nick Levine describes the album as a “blissful comedown from [her] previous album’s high intensity, pairing Cyrus’s rasp with chilled-out contemporary pop arrangements, and with mixed results.”

The success of ‘Flowers’

Before ‘Endless Summer Vacation was released, the lead single ‘Flowers’ had an extensive reign over the Billboard Global 200 chart. The single also dominated streaming services and broke numerous records after its release in December.

‘Flowers’ debuted on the Billboard chart and then spent the next six weeks in the number-one slot before being knocked down to the second spot for its seventh week. The song also earned 96,032,624 streams on Spotify globally becoming the biggest week for a song in the Platform’s history.