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A) While the genre is hugely popular in the country and sells in vast numbers, the French music industry and politicians have tried to downplay its success

The first thing that caught my attention is the pronoun at the end "its". Logically it refers back to "the genre". That makes sense. I will keep the answer for the moment.

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B) While the genre is hugely popular in the country and sells in vast numbers, the French music industry and politicians have tried to downplay their success

C) While the genre is hugely popular in the country and sells in vast number, the French music industry and politicians have tried to downplay their success

D) While the genre are hugely popular in the country and sell in vast numbers, the French music industry and politicians have tried to downplay their success

E) While the genre are hugely popular in the country and sell in vast number, the French music industries and politicians have tried to downplay their success

All the rest have "their" at the send of the sentence. The genre is singular. Hence (D) and (E) are out. Also, because the genre is singular, it cannot replace their. So, we need another antecedent for "their".

1. Vast numbers?-> the industry and politicians have tried to downplay vast numbers? success? That doesn't make sense.
2. the industry and politicians?? -> the industry and politicians have tried to downplay the industry and politicians success??? That's even worse.

Hence, (B), (C), (D) & (E) are wrong.

IMO (A) is the answer!
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