artist vs singer

artist

noun
  • A recording artist. 

  • A person who creates art as an occupation. 

  • A person who creates art. 

  • A person who is skilled at some activity. 

singer

noun
  • A person who sings, often professionally. 

  • A machine for singeing cloth. 

  • A person who, or device which, singes. 

  • dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure. 

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