( Rolling Stone ) -- In its first season , `` Glee '' featured some weirdly eclectic song choices : Remember `` Thong Song '' and `` Sweet Caroline '' in the `` Mash-Up '' episode ? But in the season-two premiere on September 21 , the show will outdo itself . Rolling Stone has learned that the first episode will feature renditions of Jay-Z 's `` Empire State of Mind , '' Lady Gaga 's `` Telephone , '' Travie McCoy 's `` Billionaire , '' and Poison 's `` Every Rose Has Its Thorn . '' In true Gleek fashion , the cast will also perform two vintage Broadway musical standards -- `` What I Did for Love '' from A Chorus Line and `` Getting to Know You '' from The King and I -- as well as `` Listen '' from the film version of `` Dreamgirls . '' According to the series ' music supervisor , P.J . Bloom , the episode 's plot paved the way for the Jay-Z track : Having placed at the Regional competition in last season 's finale , New Directions will travel to New York for the Nationals . `` So we needed a New York song , '' explains Bloom . He also says that the use of a second Gaga song -- after `` Bad Romance '' in the previous season -- is all due to co-creator Ryan Murphy . `` Ryan 's a huge Lady Gaga fan , '' Bloom says . `` I suspect we 're going to continue to look to her to be part of the show . '' The following week will see the premiere of the show 's all-Britney Spears episode , which will include performances of five Spears songs -- although for now , no one 's saying which ones . Bloom is also promising an `` additional recording '' for the episode , but is mum on details . ( We 're already picturing Spears and Matthew Morrison doing a Britney-and-Justin-style duet , but maybe that 's just us . ) In other `` Glee '' music news : Another soundtrack album could arrive as early as October , and Morrison is wrapping up his solo debut , due on Mercury Records early in 2011 . Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone .
The first `` Glee '' episode will feature renditions of `` Empire State of Mind '' and `` Telephone '' The following week will see the premiere of the show 's all-Britney Spears episode . Travie McCoy 's `` Billionaire '' will also be featured .