Miley Cyrus, who onced played the character of Hannah Montana on television's kids-oriented Nickolodeon channel, tops the list of the Maxim Magazine's Hot 100 for 2013.

Surprised? Not if you are the men's magazine's executive editor, Patrick Carone.

"We went for Miley for a variety of reasons," Carone told Fox News. "First and foremost the Hot 100 over the last few years, actually specifically the last two years, we've actually had voting online and so we've put a bunch of women we think would be contenders on Maxim.com and we just have our readers go online and vote," Carone said. "Miley just annihilated."

Carone said Miley's vote-in landslide was due to a series of factors.

"The voting for her was absolutely tremendous," he said. "And, it doesn't hurt she's extremely cute. She's young and she has her whole career ahead of her and I think really the thing with Miley that we love so much is she's a global, international force."

Miley Cyrus was so excited to be in the number one spot, she instagramed the news to the world five days before Maxim officially announced it.

"I'm so happy to be #1 on Maxim's HOT 100," said the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus.  

Although she stole some of Maxim's thunder, Carone said Maxim was happy Miley was so enthusiast about her win.

"Miley is the kind of person who cuts her hair and it's literally news in Japan and India," said Carone. "Everyone is fascinated by her love life. We've grown up with her. We've seen her turn from kind of a young girl into this beautiful woman and we really can't get 'Party in the U.S.A' out of our heads."

The Maxim Hot 100 is usually populated with famous models but this year, the only model to crack the top ten is America's Kate Upton, who was on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in both 2012 and 2013, Kate ranked No. 8 on the Maxim list.