Katie Armiger Biography

Kaitlyn Michelle "Katie" Armiger (born June 23, 1991) is a country artist from Sugar Land, Texas. She was first inspired to pursue country music after winning a Houston, Texas city-wide competition for young country singers. To date, Armiger has released four albums for Cold River Records and has charted five singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Career

Katie Armiger's self-titled debut album, was released on Cold River Records in the U.S. on August 21, 2007. It was produced by Mark Oliverius, the producer for other country acts such as Lorrie Morgan and Trick Pony. The first seven tracks of her album were co-written by Armiger with Oliverius and Ashlee Hewitt.

Armiger entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the first time in 2010 with "Kiss Me Now," which reached a peak of number 55. It served as the lead-off to her third album, Confessions of a Nice Girl, which was released in October 2010, and became her first album to chart. "Leaving Home" and "Best Song Ever" followed as the album's second and third singles, the former failed to chart, while the latter peaked at number 42. Her third album was re-released on September 20, 2011 to include her fourth single, "I Do But Do I", which was released to radio on July 11, 2011. The re-release also included three more new songs, a dance mix of "Best Song Ever", and the music videos for "I Do But Do I" and "Best Song Ever." "Scream," which was released as the fifth and final single from the album in October 2011, peaked at number 47 on the Hot Country Songs chart.

"Better in a Black Dress" was released in mid-June 2012, debuting at number 54 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart for the week of June 23, 2012. Since then, the song has become her highest charting single. The album that followed on January 22, 2013, Fall Into Me, became her highest charting album to date. It marked Armiger's first entry on the Independent Albums chart (No. 6) and the all-genre Billboard 200 (No. 32). It also became her first top 10 country album, debuting at number 7. The album's second single, "Playin' with Fire", was released February 11, 2013.

Discography

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Country	US	US Indie	US Heat
Katie Armiger	Release date: August 14, 2007 Label: Cold River Records Format: CD, music download	"?	"?	"?	"?
Believe	Release date: July 1, 2008 Label: Cold River Records Format: CD, Music Download	"?	"?	"?	"?
Confessions of a Nice Girl	Release date: October 5, 2010 Label: Cold River Records Format: CD, Music Download	58	"?	"?	36
Fall Into Me	Release date: January 15, 2013 Label: Cold River Records Format: CD, Music Download	7	32	6	"?
""?" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions		Album
		US Country	US Country Airplay
2007	"17 in Abilene"	"?	"?	Katie Armiger
2008	"Make Me Believe"	"?	"?
	"Unseen"	"?	"?	Believe
2009	"Trail of Lies"	"?	"?
	"Gone"	"?	"?
2010	"Kiss Me Now"	55	"?	Confessions of a Nice Girl
	"Leaving Home"	"?	"?
	"Best Song Ever"	42	"?
2011	"I Do But Do I"	"?	"?
	"Scream"	47	"?
2012	"Better in a Black Dress"	45	42	Fall Into Me
2013	"Playin' with Fire"	"?	50
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""?" denotes releases that did not chart

^A To be released.

Music videos

Year	Title	Director
2007	"17 in Abilene"	Kristin Barlowe
2008	"Make Me Believe"	Kristin Barlowe
	"Unseen"	Stephen Shepherd
2008	"All I Want for Christmas Is You"	Glenn Switzer
	"I Just Want to Be with You This Christmas"
2009	"Trail of Lies"	Stephen Shepherd
	"Gone"	Traci Goudie
2010	"Kiss Me Now"
	"Leaving Home"
	"Best Song Ever"	Evan Kaufmann
2011	"I Do but Do I"	Stephen Shepherd
	"Scream"	Ryan Hamblin
2012	"Better in a Black Dress"	Stephen Shepherd
2013	"Playin' with Fire"