Mathematicians discover music really can be infectious like a virus | Science | The Guardian
Rosati said: It implies that a lot of the social processes that drive the spread of disease, or analogues of those processes, might also be driving the spread of songs. More specifically, it supports the idea that both music and infectious diseases depend on social connections to spread through populations.
With a disease, if you come into contact with someone who is ill, then you have a certain chance of catching that disease. With songs, it looks very similar. The big difference is that for songs, it doesn t necessarily have to be physical contact it could be that my friend used this cool new song in their Instagram story, so now I m going to go and find it.