Have you ever tried forcing a song out of your head but to no avail? It’s more common than you would imagine and some people are stuck with a catchy tune or phrase for lengthy periods. The human mind ...

The words just stuck, I can remember pretty much the whole song and jingle from one listening, which is very rare.<P>It is also rare that I have a song stuck in my head for so long.

Thinking of or listening to another song can help us get rid of the one stuck in our head, Jakubowski said. “It’s super hard to have two songs in your head at once because they use the same ...

Feltman: Totally, yeah, I mean that little hook with the “ooh la las” and whatever—there’s a lot of stuff in that song that seems really primed to get stuck in at least my head.

Why do songs get stuck in our heads? People’s minds have been lingering on the song of the summer well into winter long before we had access to music on our personal devices. In 1979 ...

For Kristina Riggle, a 35-year-old novelist from Kentwood, Mich., it’s “Come Sail Away”. But when the song starts looping over and over in her head, it’s not always Styx that’s singing it.

The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track specifically designed to banish "Jingle Bells," "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and other much-too-catchy seasonal tunes.

The story of a song that’s been stuck in my head nearly all my life “The Wayward Wind,” by Gogi Grant, was a favorite of my brother Peter, and I’d call in requests for him. (iStock) ...