diff --git a/beetsplug/musicbrainz.py b/beetsplug/musicbrainz.py
index bdfeb0968..cc0b7adee 100644
--- a/beetsplug/musicbrainz.py
+++ b/beetsplug/musicbrainz.py
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ BASE_URL = "https://musicbrainz.org/"
 SKIPPED_TRACKS = ["[data track]"]
 
 FIELDS_TO_MB_KEYS = {
+    "barcode": "barcode",
     "catalognum": "catno",
     "country": "country",
     "label": "label",
-    "barcode": "barcode",
     "media": "format",
     "year": "date",
 }
diff --git a/docs/plugins/musicbrainz.rst b/docs/plugins/musicbrainz.rst
index ef10be66d..9068ec45d 100644
--- a/docs/plugins/musicbrainz.rst
+++ b/docs/plugins/musicbrainz.rst
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ MusicBrainz. Additional tags to be queried can be supplied with the
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
     musicbrainz:
-        extra_tags: [year, catalognum, country, media, label]
+        extra_tags: [barcode, catalognum, country, label, media, year]
 
 This setting should improve the autotagger results if the metadata with the
 given tags match the metadata returned by MusicBrainz.
diff --git a/test/plugins/test_musicbrainz.py b/test/plugins/test_musicbrainz.py
index d4104a3ba..d74e3ff40 100644
--- a/test/plugins/test_musicbrainz.py
+++ b/test/plugins/test_musicbrainz.py
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ class TestMusicBrainzPlugin(PluginMixin):
         "plugin_config,va_likely,expected_additional_criteria",
         [
             ({}, False, {"artist": "artist"}),
-            ({}, True, {"artist": "artist"}),
+            ({}, True, {"arid": "89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377"}),
             (
                 {"extra_tags": ["label", "catalognum"]},
                 False,