Widely speaking and summarizing it as much as I can:
Macross - The alien race only lives for war, men are women don't go along and they don't live together at all, they are shocked when they see that humanity's males and females live together, and they are shocked by Minmay's singing. Since they face many aliens who didn't know about it yet in the final war they use singing to confuse them. It's a "the less you explain the better" situation. The singer is an idol.
DYRL - Same as in the series, although in the movie alien men and female are in an open war against each other. The singer is of course the same idol as in the series.
Macross II - New aliens make their own "idols" for war to counterattack the singing strategy that humans developed. The singers are mostly the aliens, in fact the singer that saves the day is an alien turned good, so I wouldn't call her exactly an idol.
Macross Plus - The singing is actually done by an AI. It has some kind of hypnotic effect together with holograms.
Macross 7 - Singing becomes retarded and almost a magical power. New batch of aliens suck an energy called "spiritia" from humans and leave them in vegetative state. The singing from the MC can not only revive them, but also be used as energy in cannons, and finally turn good a being that you could call, by all intents and purposes, some kind of an evil god. The MC has a rock band, so it's not an idol.
Macross Zero - The singer here is a priestess who sings. She's posessed by some being created by the protoculture and after saving the day takes off to space. So not an idol.

So that means that before Frontier the only Macross series with an idol was the original one. They all have some sort of singer or thinga that makes music, that's for sure, but only in Macross it's an idol.

Frontier and Zero went full idolshit, and I guess that won't change for a while. And the whole crap with singing affecting piloting is getting more and more retarded each new join.

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