Most people have had the unpleasant experience of a song playing endlessly in their heads and not knowing how to stop it. Well, now you know what to call it: earworm, which is a literal translation of the German word ohrwurm.
Wikipedia defines earworm as a portion of a song or other music that repeats compulsively within one's mind, put colloquially as "music being stuck in onés head ."
There is even a website dedicated to earworms.
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