A women's professional football player, a guy obsessed with Kelly Rowland and a semi-finalist from season one were among the contestants sent through to the next round on Wednesday night's episode of

Lorie Moore was the pro football player, who wowed the judges — just Kelly Rowland and Simon Cowell were present for her audition — with a strong rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing." "You started to open up your mouth to not sing, but sang, S-A-N-G," Rowland told the 34-year-old Los Angeles resident. "You've been on that football field too long, girl." Simon Cowell told Moore she gave "more than an audition, it was a performance. This is, again, why we have no age limit on this show, to find people like you. And you are very, very, very good."

Wesley Mountain, who set off stalker alarms with his borderline disturbing obsession with Rowland, went from "creepy" — that was Demi Lovato's word — to "cute" when he sang Hunter Hayes' "Wanted." The 19-year-old from Capitol Heights, Maryland approached Rowland with a glazed over look in his eye, like he was getting ready to take her back to his lair, to the point where Cowell had to order him back to the stage. But his version of "Wanted" earned him four yes votes, although Lovato offered this qualifier: "I'm going to say yes, but don't eat my friend."

Meanwhile, 35-year-old James Kenney, who made it to the judges' houses round back in "X Factor's" first season, made it through again after his version of "Summertime" was deemed "sexy" ...

When Drake named his upcoming album Nothing Was The Same
 he wasn't kidding. If early sales predictions hold up, Drizzy could be headed into uncharted career territory.

According to early Billboard projections, Drake is on track for the second-best chart debut of 2013, with sales pegged at north of 675,000.

That would put him behind the first part of Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience (968,000), but ahead of the year's current second-best bow, Jay Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail,
 which opened with 527,000 in July. (If you ask Hov, he actually moved 1.5 million copies, but Billboard did not count the one million Jigga pre-sold through a Samsung app giveaway.)

It would also mark Drake's best first week ever, ahead of 2010's Thank Me Later (447,000) and 2011's Take Care (631,000), as well as his third #1 Billboard debut in a row. If numbers hold, it would also be the best first week for a hip-hop release since September 2011, when Lil Wayne moved 964,000 copies of Tha Carter IV.

The OVO boss recently revealed the seven-minute mafia-inspired video for the emotional ballad, "Hold On, We're Going Home," which he told MTV News could be his stepping-stone back into acting
.

"Bill Pope, who directed 'The Matrix,' directed the video and basically it's a video full of acting because I'm dying to get back into acting," Drake said. "So there's actually no performance in the video — it's all acting. A$AP's in it as well, plus a lot of different cameos, but it's a story-based video."

"I based it off of some ...

It feels like Lady Gaga has been working on ARTPOP forever. But every artist has to put the final brushstroke on the canvas at some point and Mother Monster is finally ready to put the brush down.

"In the final days finishing ARTPOP," Gaga tweeted early Thursday morning (September 26). "I feel like an atelier. Refining seams. Ironing fabrics. Needling the last thread of my couture creation."

After living with the music for more than a year, it sounds like even Gaga is a bit blown away by what she's cooked up for the album, which is due out November 11.

"It was this amazing moment today my head down gazing at the soundboard -- the music came on I looked up + knew it was ARTPOP it all made sense," she wrote.

We got a major preview of what's in store earlier this month when Gaga played seven mostly unheard songs 
 from the album during the iTunes Festival.

Among the fresh tracks she revealed were "Jewels & Drugs," a trap-like rap tune featuring rappers T.I., Too $hort and Twista, which Gaga said on Tuesday is her special baby at the moment. "Everyone's asking me what my favorite song is on ARTPOP," she wrote. "It changes all the time but I LOVE LOVE Jewels n' Drugs feat. TI Too $hort & Twista."

There was also the thumping dance song "Aura," the punky girl group rocker "MANiCure," the album's trip-hoppy title track and the throbbing pop anthem, "Sex Dreams." She ended the set with the industrial grinder "Swine" ...

It may be the first TomorrowWorld ever, but the inaugural festival is already bringing more than 300 acts to the United States.

Besides the usual heavy hitters such as Tiësto, Afrojack, Steve Aoki and Diplo, a majority of the stages round up other acts that haven't broken through to the mainstream market quite yet. MTV News caught up with some of EDM's greatest veterans to get some advice on which "artists of tomorrow" we should keep an eye on this weekend.

Not surprisingly, the Los Angeles-based group GTA came up more than once. Both Steve Aoki and Martin Solveig are enamored by the two producers, and according to Aoki, "everyone" is playing their records right now. Another performer at TomorrowWorld and "artist of tomorrow" pick from Aoki was Dirtyphonics, a group of four producers from France that only produce "insane bangers."

Alesso naturally vets for his close friend Otto Knows, who recently worked on some new music for the legendary pop-star Britney Spears, and Alesso promises his new releases will be just as incredible.

But by far the most interesting projection came from EDM superstar Afrojack. When asked about an "artist of tomorrow," without skipping a beat, he declared his good friend Hardwell — an unexpected name since he is far from a new or underground artist. He joked that despite this, and the fact that he is not signed to his label, he guarantees in the next two years, Hardwell will soar in the industry, predicting David Guetta-level awareness and success.

Although Otto Knows can't make it, you ...

In the third part of Kanye West's BBC interview, Yeezy throws out more 'Ye-isms. This time, he's talking about girlfriend Kim Kardashian and how much he yearns to be part of the fashion industry &#8212 on his own terms, of course. Look below for more juicy tidbits from our favorite ranting rapper.

Kanye On Kim
When asked in Kanye takes any time for himself amid all the work he's doing in the age of the Internet, the rapper says that family time is the most important to him.

"It's what Kim gave me. She gave me a family. She gave me a support system. She was in a powerful enough situation where she could love me without asking me for money — which is really hard for me to find."

Kanye's 'Not A Real Rapper'
According to 'Ye, he's just an amateur at everything, which leads us to believe that anyone can do what they want if they have the drive of Kanye West. If people tell him he can't be a fashion designer, why not? He makes music for a living and he can't even play piano.

"I've got so much I want to give. I've got so many ideas on color palettes, I've got ideas on silouhettes. And I got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper either. I'm not a real musician either. Like I don't know how to play the piano!"

Kanye And 2 Chainz Both Got A Chance
Yeezus, despite making ...

A$AP Rocky may have just been when they were spotted together in New York City in August, but it was all for the cameras. The duo's is officially out, and in it, the twosome crush on each other... and designer duds.

The video, premiered on GQ, follows the two artists as they hang around an apartment before painting the town red, going on a after-hours shopping spree in several high-end stores. The playful couple gets flirty not only with each other but also the couture they try on for each other.

When they aren't playing with the clothes, they're snuggling on the street. But throughout the video, there is yet another, more mysterious storyline. A masked man follows the pair around town. At the end of the video, he spray paints the word "art" on the side of a building.

The video was directed by A$AP Rocky and hip-hop fashion maven Virgil Abloh. Earlier this week, the rapper opened up to "106 & Park" about enlisting Rihanna to play his onscreen love interest.

"She's a fashion killa in my eyes. I respect her jigginess. I respect her fashion sense so that's why I used her as a female. It's about art, the whole video, we wanted to base it off art," he explained, before breaking down who the masked graffiti artist is. "It's this famous, well he's infamous, he's a tagger. His name is Kidult. We use his art and we use her art for being a fashion killa and made this conceptual video. ...

Birdman is a proud CEO. On Tuesday, his Cash Money artist Drake dropped Nothing was the Same, his third LP, which has captivated music fans since it leaked onto the Internet last week.

Not only did the #1 Stunna get to release the project through his Cash Money Record company, he also dropped some bars on one of the LP's most exciting songs . Many fans speculate that the song is a subtle response to Kendrick Lamar's fiery verse on Big Sean's "Control," where the Compton lyricist lyrically challenged Drake and a handful of other MCs.

"F--- any n---a that's talkin' that sh-- just to get a reaction/ F--- going platinum, I looked at my wrist and it's already platinum," Drake spit on a line that many believe is a subliminal reference to K-Dot's ear-popping verse.

Baby heard the speculation, but he doesn't think that Kendrick was Drake's intended target. "Drake do what he do. He really slick with whatever he do. He makes you think. But I didn't think he put no energy into that," he said on Wednesday (September 25) when he appeared on "RapFix Live."

"Kendrick the homey, I ain't got nothin' but love and respect for Kendrick. Top Dawg is one of my best friends, so I would never want to see us condone that," Birdman said acknowledging TDE's CEO. "That ain't what this about."

Drake himself addressed the rap competition when he appeared on Angie Martinez's Hot 97 radio show in New York earlier this week. "It just wasn't real to me. I saw him ...

Pusha T has a deep and dark past that didn't always include platinum plaques and VMA performances. So now that the Clipse MC is getting set to release his solo debut album, My Name is My Name, he's ready for a little celebration. Except the album's first official single "Sweet Serenade" is anything but — and its upcoming video follows suit.

"'Sweet Serenade,' it doesn't sound really sweet. It's pretty dark so to capture that we came and shot on the beach at night time, bonfire," Push told MTV News on Monday from his video shoot at Playa del Rey in California.

The track and Colin Tilley-directed video features Chris Brown, who delivers a glass-high toast on the song's hook. "C'mon let's toast the champagne, this one's for the life," he sings in dark and muted vocals.

"I like Chris, Chris has an edge to him that's very real; he's a real person, he goes through real situations," Push said of his latest collaborator. "Me and Chris are just two passionate artists about our craft, and we actually give a damn."

For Pusha, though, "Sweet Serenade" is the long exhale after making it past a street life with serious consequences. "It's basically celebrating the fact that we've made it this far," he explained. "We've been through so much, me and my friends. We've been around some of the worst things, the worst environments, we've lived through some really harsh times and we're still here and we're celebrating that."

Then when My Name is My Name is finally released on October 8, you ...