Song · DeVotchKa
“How It Ends” by DeVotchKa
From the album How It Ends (2004)
“How It Ends” by DeVotchKa appears on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2009 and 2026. It was first released in 2004 on the album How It Ends. Its best result is #69 on The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,248 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"How It Ends" gives DeVotchKa's fourth album its name, a 2004 release on Cicero Recordings, and the writing credit goes to the band as a whole. Craig Schumacher recorded and mixed it, Chris Schultz engineered, and guest Lindsay Emmett sits in on violin.
The screen gave it a second act. In 2006 it rang out in Little Miss Sunshine, a film the band also scored, and two years later it soundtracked a commercial for the Xbox 360 game Gears of War 2. As recently as 2025 it resurfaced in episode 2 of High Potential. The singles chart never quite caught on: in Britain it crept to 101.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 269 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2009 | 271 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2019 | 124 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2022 | 69 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2024 | 400 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 621 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 86 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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