bad news vs failure

bad news

noun
  • An irritating, troublesome or harmful person, situation or thing. 

  • News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events. 

failure

noun
  • An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success. 

  • Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done. 

  • State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success. 

  • Bankruptcy. 

  • Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown. 

How often have the words bad news and failure occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )