Take the following as truth: Critics also declare 1997--dominated by the Spice Girls--as the year of the woman in  Never in pop history have female singers been quite so aggressively, shrewdly marketed on the basis of gender alone (Karen Schoemer, Newsweek ).
Then the following statement: "The Spice Girls were more popular than the Backstreet Boys in 1990. " is true, false, or inconclusive?