Miley Cyrus "La 5º Mujer del Año" según MTV

In 2008, Miley Cyrus was criticized for growing up too fast. From leaked pics to a risqué Vanity Fair spread, it seemed like the teen was in a hurry to make the transition from squeaky-clean Disney star to full-grown woman, and the pundits gave her hell for it (though we placed her fourth on our '08 Woman of the Year countdown). In 2009, she weathered much of the same criticisms, but she still managed to make giant strides towards adulthood, thanks mostly to a mega-successful tour, a pair of chart-dominating singles and her much-discussed decision to delete her Twitter account. Cyrus might still just be 17 years old, but she's established herself as a force to be reckoned with and shows no signs of letting up anytime soon.

2009 Highlights: What wasn't a highlight for Miley in 2009? She came into the year with a Golden Globe-nominated song and an invite to play one of Barack Obama's inaugural shows. Her "Hannah Montana" movie bowed at #1 at the box office, pulling in some $34 million, the second-highest grossing Easter-weekend debut in history. Within a few weeks, the soundtrack to the movie would claim the top spot on the Billboard albums chart too.

She released a string of mega-successful singles, "The Climb" and "Party in the U.S.A.," which not only dominated the charts but earned her critical praise too. She toured and worked on "The Last Song" — a reportedly "more mature" film that paired her with Liam Hemsworth, with whom she'd soon be romantically linked — and filmed a cameo in "Sex and the City 2."

But, oh, there were still controversies. In February, she rankled Asian-rights groups when a photo of her and her friends making a so-called "slant-eyed" gesture hit the Net. Cyrus said the picture was "taken out of context," but eventually apologized for it. Then, in August, she offended parents' groups with a pole-dance during her performance at the Teen Choice Awards.

In October, Cyrus deleted her famous Twitter account and as fans flooded the site with messages begging her to return, it crashed momentarily. Some said she quit at Hemsworth's insistence, though she denied it, calling the implication "stupid" and saying Twitter should be "banned from the universe." Then, in November, she made headlines again when she admitted that contrary to the lyrics of "Party in the U.S.A.," she's never heard a Jay-Z song.

But Miley never let any of the controversy derail her, and as 2009 draws to a close, she's winning raves for her cover of Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn." Like we said, she shows no signs of slowing down, and we wouldn't be willing to bet against her in 2010, either.

Among Cyrus' other newsworthy moments this year, she feuded with Radiohead and Jamie Foxx. She reunited (in song) with ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas, and tweeted through her breakup with model Justin Gaston. She inadvertently complicated Lil Jon's life when the rapper somehow acquired her old phone number. She made the brave move of dissing the "Twilight" series. And then she met the Queen of England.

Créditos: MTV.COM

No quiero traducirla, pero en general habla de todo lo que hizo Miley en este año, sus presentaciones "controversiales", la eliminación de su cuenta de Twitter, la relación con su ex-novio Nick Jonas, la participación especial en "Sex and The City 2", el éxito que obtuvo con Party In The USA batiendo varios records, entre otras cosas.