balladeer vs chanter

balladeer

noun
  • A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads. 

verb
  • To sing a ballad 

chanter

noun
  • One who chants or sings. 

  • The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played. 

  • A priest who sings in a chantry. 

  • The hedge sparrow. 

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