Phantom music playing in the background

I have a MBP that started playing music all of sudden. The song in question was "jump" by Van Halen. The issue was when I would restart and log back into the account, the music would play automatically. I have no clue why this was playing because I have never downloaded the song before. I have tried all the possible solution to stop the music:
Running the Sophos antivirus just to make sure I didn't have a virus
Killed every process running in the background
Ran activity monitor to see if there were new processes, but there weren't
Checked my users folder to see if anything was added but things were normal
Checked "log on items" and that was normal & nothing was marked invisible.
After hours of frustration, I did a hard restart, logged in and the music was gone. My really question is why did this happen. I suspected that maybe a script was running in the background to play this song, but every process was killed and I checked every audio file on the system and "jump" was not there.

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