For the majority of the weeks since the beginning of July we have had enough eligible records to fill a show. There were only two weeks where their wasn't enough eligible records.
However this isn't because we have more records entering the charts, it's mainly because we are having more records slowly climb the charts. Once a record plummets down the charts after 9 weeks it allows the records immediately below it to climb a place and therefore become eligible for Top of the Pops after staying in the same position for weeks.
One example of a record slowly climbing is "Panic Room" by Au/Ra ft Camelphat. It entered the Top 40 in early July, two months later it had climbed to number 30.
The rule of capping the number of songs per album eligible for the charts to 3 has stopped artists flooding the charts when they release a new album, but it is becoming more common to see 3 new entries from the same artist when their new album comes out.
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