Word for listening to a single song over and over

Question

Is there an English verb that would mean listening to a single song (on repeat) over and over just because one likes it so much? In my language we have a word that would in English literally mean something like "to outwear" or "to wear down".

For example, one buys a record and then, instead of listening to all the songs from the album, sticks to one single song, playing it for five days without listening to any other music.

Answer 1

You are wearing it out; also the song itself could be wearing thin.

Answer 2

If you loop a song, you play it on repeat. (You can also put it on repeat.)

This doesn't necessarily have the connotation that the original phrase seems to have of wearing out the song's welcome. To clarify, you can use an adverb like endlessly.

There are other phrases, not specific to music, about repeating an action until it becomes boring/obnoxious.

Answer 3

In case somebody likes it, another one I found on the Internets yesterday was "to burn the song into your brain"...

Answer 4

be done to death (informal)
if a particular style or subject is done to death, it is used or discussed so many times that it is not interesting any more
The military look was done to death in last season's fashion shows.

If a joke or story has been done to death, it has been told so often that it has stopped being funny. (UsingEnglish)

Answer 5

If you are describing the psychological implications of repeating the song, you might consider the verb to obsess. A related phrase might be Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). There is a psychological disorder called Monomania, and a related term Idée fixe. These terms may be applied to the abnormal repetition of an activity, such as listening to a song.

Never failing to inform and entertain, Oliver Sacks's Musicophilia describes in different chapters how the brain craves music. And Daniel J. Levitin wrote This is your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. These books will not so much give you the verb for which you search; however, they may give you insight into the nature of the obsession involving music.