Holding company incorporation, Singapore and offshore
A catalogue is not one asset. It is a stack: masters, publishing rights, trademarks, and the contracts attached to each. Those contracts get signed by someone. When a company signs, the risk and the tax consequences land on the company, not on you. In most structures the company should exist before the first significant contract goes out. We incorporate in Singapore or offshore, whichever fits your facts.
One owner of record
Every licensee, bank, and buyer wants to see a single legal owner for the catalogue, and a company is that owner. Liability sits behind it too: a dispute in the touring business does not reach the masters. Your personal tax affairs stay separate from the catalogue's, which matters once royalties start crossing borders. Timing decides how much this costs. A deal signed before the company exists gets negotiated against you as a person. Retrofitting a catalogue into a company afterwards means assignments, new counterparty approvals, and in some cases renegotiating terms already agreed.
Singapore or offshore
Offshore incorporation has a place, and it is narrower than it used to be. Jurisdictions that once held IP without questions, the BVI among them, now require economic substance for IP holding companies, and an IP business is the hardest category to satisfy, because the business is just ownership of rights. For most artists Singapore is the better base, because the management, the deals, and the money move through it. Offshore tends to be right when privacy is the dominant concern, since Singapore's corporate register is public, or when your tax residence sits outside Singapore. The decision is a set of specific facts, not a default.