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The author wants to add the following sentence to the passage: Record companies had a great deal of control over an artist's career because, among other things, they could decide to either heavily promote an artist or to do little publicity. The sentence would fit most logically into:


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Okay C t s firing literary people last one in

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the set of a dozen here let's get to it

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fifty years ago is difficult to imagine and people label

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downloading streaming from the internet infected years goes the internet

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record companies used to advance among you in order to

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record their album And then they would deduce deduct the

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days of going to the record store to buy an

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album are gone long struggling to maintain their existence In

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some ways the internet has empowered artists allowing them to

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have more control over their careers The author wants to

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add the following sense to the passage Record companies had

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a great deal of control over an artist career because

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among other things they could decide to either heavily promote

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an artist or do little publicity All right so that

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sends wood fits most logically where let's think about this

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here We got kind of historical thing fifty years ago

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and the record companies used to advance some money Ok

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that's in pretty relevant there for record companies controlled the

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starving artist there And then we go to consumers Don't

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buy things same way In the fourth paragraph it kind

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of sums up okay well the sense uses the past

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tense so we can assume that it's talking about the

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way things for prior to the internet like a past

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life was grand and now it's not It's kind of

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a vibe Anyway paragraph two discusses how music used to

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be recorded and sold so it's the best home for

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our new sentence Right sentence doesn't match the contacts The

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paragraph one which introduces the main idea that the internet

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revolutionized the music industry in kind of killed it Paragraph

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four discussing the benefits and challenges faced by artist now

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so it would be jarring to go back in time

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so then discuss how things used to be done Trust

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us We've watched back to the future with fifteen times

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so we know how this works Finally paragraph three talks

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about how consumer habits have changed so it wouldn't be

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a logical place to mention how record companies used to

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do things So yeah the answer is a It fits

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right there in paragraph teo somewhere Anyway that's it We're

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done with the music industry sadly as our record stores

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as well

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