Time Signatures and Locking the grid??

Are your 8 songs placed sequentially, or simultaneously? In the former case, there is no problem… just insert the appropriate Time Signature/Tempo at the start of each song.
In the 2nd case, you could make use of the new Versions function, such that each song (which is presumably starting at the same place) will call up its own Version of the Signature track and Tempo track.