bad news vs misfortune

bad news

noun
  • News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events. 

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

misfortune

noun
  • Bad luck. 

  • An undesirable event such as an accident. 

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