A cover of Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball her 2013 hit from the album Bangerz

Wrecking Ball was recorded by American singer Miley Cyrus on her fourth studio album, Bangerz. Wrecking Ball was released on August 25, 2013, by RCA Records and was the album's second single. The song was written by Mozella, Stephan Moccio, Sacha Skarbek, with Dr. Luke and Cirkut, who also served as the producers, credited as co-writers along with David Kim. Wrecking Ball is a pop ballad which discusses the deterioration of a relationship.
It debuted at number fifty on the Billboard Hot 100, and subsequently became Miley's first number-one song on the chart after the release of its controversial music video; it kept the same position during the following week. The track returned to number one nine weeks later, and consequently had the largest gap between number-one sittings in Billboard Hot 100 history within a single chart run. Up until January 2014, Wrecking Ball sold three million copies in the United States. Outside of the United States, it topped the charts in Canada, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and reached the top ten of the charts throughout much of continental Europe and Oceania. It is the only song of Miley's to crack the Billboard Decade-End, doing so at number 99. The song received a generally positive reception form music critics, who appreciated the song's vulnerability.
An music video for Wrecking Ball was released on September 9, 2013. It features close-up scenes of Cyrus tearfully singing, changing to footage of a nude Cyrus swinging on a wrecking ball. Critics were divided in their opinions of the music video. Wrecking Ball previously held the Vevo record for the most views in the first 24 hours after its release with 19.3 million views. At the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards, Cyrus took home the award for Best Video and the award for Video of the Year at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. Adding to the video's success, Miley won the award for World's Best Video at the 2014 World Music Awards in Monte Carlo. Miley performed Wrecking Ball during several live performances, including the iHeartRadio Music Festival, an episode of Saturday Night Live and the "TikTok Tailgate" before Super Bowl LV.
The song was originally written with Beyoncé in mind before being offered to Cyrus.
Before directly stating that "Wrecking Ball" was originally written with Beyoncé in mind, songwriter Sacha Skarbek tweeted "Beyonce song now becoming a Miley Cyrus song?!! Good/bad? I don't know??!!!! [sic]"