Question: Did Neon Trees or Salt have a hit single first?

Context articles: Habits (album)
Neon Trees
Your Surrender
King Niko
Salt (band)
Animal (Neon Trees song)
Sleeping with a Friend
Everybody Talks
Neon Hitch discography
Fictionist

Habits is the debut studio album by American rock band Neon Trees, released on March 16, 2010.
 The album's lead single, "Animal" was featured in several commercials, including those for Camp Vegas, and has reached #13 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #1 on the Alternative Rock chart.
 "1983" received a music video, the single was released on September 28, 2010.
Neon Trees is an American rock band from Provo, Utah.
 Known for their energetic live performances, the band received nationwide exposure in late 2008 when they opened several North American tour dates for the band The Killers.
 Not long after, the band was signed by Mercury Records and released their first studio album, "Habits", in 2010.
 Their first single, "Animal", climbed to No. 13 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Alternative Songs chart.
 Neon Trees' songs are represented by Downtown Music Publishing.
"Your Surrender" is the third single from American rock band Neon Trees' debut album "Habits".
 It was written by S*A*M, Sluggo, Tyler Glenn and produced by Tim Pagnotta.
 It was released on February 22, 2011.
 The song peaked at Number 27 on the "Billboard" Alternative Songs chart and Number 50 on the "Billboard" Rock Songs chart. "
'Your Surrender'" has also been featured in the Disney film "Prom".
King Niko is an indie rock band from Salt Lake City, Utah, composed of Benjamin Moffat (guitar), Ransom Wydner (vocals), Timothy Rawcliffe (bass), Zachary Sloan (drums) and Reid Laitinen (keys).
 King Niko has played with bands like Loverboy, Rooney, Say Anything, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Switchfoot, Anberlin, Grouplove, Neon Trees and Panic!
 at the Disco.
Salt was a Swedish grunge alternative rock band, who had one hit single from the album "Auscultate", "Bluster", in the United States in 1996.
 "So" was released as a second single from "Auscultate" but did not achieve the same level of success.
"Animal" is the lead single from Neon Trees' debut studio album, "Habits".
 It debuted in June 2010 at number 100 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and has reached a peak of number 13 in its twenty-two week on the chart.
 In Canada, the song debuted at number 95 on the Canadian Hot 100 and has climbed to number 29.
 The song has reached number one on the "Billboard" Alternative Songs chart after 32 weeks, making "Animal" their first number-one song on a "Billboard" chart.
 This also broke the record for the longest-length of time for a song to get to the top of that list after entering.
 The song reached number two on the "Billboard" Rock Songs chart.
 In one of the music videos of the song, the band is destroying an art gallery.
 On May 22, 2011, the song won Top Alternative Song in the 2011 "Billboard" Music Awards.
"Sleeping with a Friend" is a song written and performed by American rock band Neon Trees.
 It was originally recorded by the band for their third studio album, "Pop Psychology" (2014).
 The song was released as the first single from "Pop Psychology" on January 11, 2014.
"Everybody Talks" is the lead single from the second studio album, "Picture Show", by American rock band Neon Trees.
 It was released on December 20, 2011, in the United States as a digital download on iTunes.
 It soon became a sleeper hit.
 The song made it to No. 6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, making this song their highest charting single to date as well as their first Top 10 hit.
 The song was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen, engineered and mixed by Billy Bush, and mastered by Joe LaPorta.
The discography of British singer and songwriter Neon Hitch.
 Neon's debut digital single "Get Over U" was released in February 2011.
 Hitch then released her single "Bad Dog", which was intended to be the lead single from her debut album.
 Later in 2011, she was featured on Gym Class Heroes' song "Ass Back Home".
 In 2012, Neon Hitch released "Fuck U Betta" and Gold" featuring Tyga, her official first and second singles respectively.
 Both songs peaked at number one on the "Billboard" Dance/Club Play chart.
 Neon then debuted an EP entitled "Happy Neon" in January 2013, which was released online for free.
 In October 2013, Neon announced that her debut album "Beg, Borrow & Steal" had been scrapped and she would release a new album that had more of her soul in it.
 In January 2014, Neon released the mixtape "301 to Paradise" for free.
 In May 2014, it was announced that Hitch had parted ways with her label Warner Bros. and was gearing up to releasing her new debut album "Eleutheromaniac"; she also released "Happy Neon" and "301 to Paradise" to digital retailers independently in the same month.
 She premiered the lead single of "Eleutheromaniac", "Yard Sale", in August 2014.
 In January 2015, Neon released "Sparks" as the first single from the album.
 In March 2015, Hitch released the EP "24:00" for free.
 In 2016, it was announced that Hitch had changed the name of her debut album to "Anarchy", which was released on July 22, 2016.
 The lead single from the album, "Please", was released on July 8, 2016.
 The album did not contain any of the singles intended to be on "Eluetheromaniac", but included a promomotional single she released in 2015, "Freedom".
Fictionist is an alternative rock band from Provo, Utah, with origins in Salt Lake City and Sacramento.
 The band consists of Stuart Maxfield (lead vocals, bass guitar), Robbie Connolly (lead vocals, guitar), Brandon Kitterman (guitar, bass guitar), and Aaron Anderson (drums).
 They have toured nationally and have opened for acts including Imagine Dragons, Vampire Weekend, Neon Trees, Young the Giant, and Shiny Toy Guns.