Newly single Miley Cyrus is prone to doing things her way no matter the backlash she receives and at the height of her career, the 20-year-old singer said there are some people she refuses to take advice from.

Since her split from actor Liam Hemsworth after a 14-month engagement, the We Can't Stop croner has been devoting all her time and energy to promote her new album, Bangerz. The music video for Wrecking Ball broke the VEVO record for most views in the first 24 hours when it was released on Sept. 9, racking in 12.3 million. The track, the second single off Bangerz, has 223. 5 million views at time of publication.

Cyrus also became the first person to simultaneously earn a number one single and a number one album in the British music chart in 2013, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.

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Her last album was 2010's Can't Be Tamed and the former Disney star told Hunger TV she is enjoying the spotlight after taking a hiatus in 2011.

"I have been gone for a few years, where I wasn't doing anything and I wasn't working," she said. "So now it feels like all that work in the studio did pay off."

Before Cyrus released the music video for We Can't Stop music video in June, record executives were nervous about the singer's new direction.

"At first on paper that video sounded insane, no one understood it, and I'm just like, 'Let me film it and then if it doesn't work out, you never have to trust me again, but if it works out, you have to let me drive this ship," she explained. " 'You know I'm on to something.' And then they call me and they're like 'Yo, you're onto something!'"

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The singer said it is not easy taking advice from people not in tune with today's youth but still try to tell her what kind of image she should have.

"With magazines, with movies, it's always weird when things are targeted for young people yet they're driven by people that are like 40 years too old. It can't be like this 70-year-old Jewish man that doesn't leave his desk all day, telling me what the clubs want to hear," she said. "I'm going out, I know what they want to hear. I know when you're in a club, what makes everyone go crazy and when the time is where everyone's like, 'Alright, I'm going go get a drink.' "

I know when people walk off the dance floor and I know what's driving it, so I've got to be the one doing it because they're just not in on what 20-year-olds are doing."

She taught herself to tune out her critics and focus on record sales and taking her career as far as it can go.

"At the end of the day I want people to buy my records. It isn't about thinking just about this two-minute performance on VMAs or this music video," she explains. "I want people to want to hear my records and the more that they're wondering what the hell is she doing, the more they're going to want to listen to my record."

The singer has no intention of slowing down. "Right now it has to be go time. You don't pause when a rocket ship is taking off," she added. "And so, I just make sure I keep reminding myself, 'This is my time.' "

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Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Bangerz