diff --git a/picard/album.py b/picard/album.py
index 60eb48c54..f82c7cd77 100644
--- a/picard/album.py
+++ b/picard/album.py
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ class Album(DataObject, Item):
         config = get_config()
         require_authentication = False
         inc = ['release-groups', 'media', 'discids', 'recordings', 'artist-credits',
-               'artists', 'aliases', 'labels', 'isrcs', 'collections']
+               'artists', 'aliases', 'labels', 'isrcs', 'collections', 'annotation']
         if self.tagger.webservice.oauth_manager.is_authorized():
             require_authentication = True
             inc += ['user-collections']
diff --git a/picard/mbjson.py b/picard/mbjson.py
index 6d58325c6..66cd6a948 100644
--- a/picard/mbjson.py
+++ b/picard/mbjson.py
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ _RECORDING_TO_METADATA = {
 }
 
 _RELEASE_TO_METADATA = {
+    'annotation': '~releaseannotation',
     'asin': 'asin',
     'barcode': 'barcode',
     'country': 'releasecountry',
diff --git a/test/data/ws_data/release.json b/test/data/ws_data/release.json
index 5c2c012ff..ec39cb374 100644
--- a/test/data/ws_data/release.json
+++ b/test/data/ws_data/release.json
@@ -460,7 +460,8 @@
     ],
     "id": "b84ee12a-09ef-421b-82de-0441a926375b",
     "packaging-id": "e724a489-a7e8-30a1-a17c-30dfd6831202",
-    "disambiguation": "",
+    "disambiguation": "stereo",
+    "annotation": "Original Vinyl release",
     "label-info": [
         {
             "catalog-number": "SHVL 804",
diff --git a/test/test_mbjson.py b/test/test_mbjson.py
index a7613ff80..30a50a12d 100644
--- a/test/test_mbjson.py
+++ b/test/test_mbjson.py
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ class ReleaseTest(MBJSONTest):
         self.assertEqual(m['script'], 'Latn')
         self.assertEqual(m['~albumartists'], 'Pink Floyd')
         self.assertEqual(m['~albumartists_sort'], 'Pink Floyd')
+        self.assertEqual(m['~releasecomment'], 'stereo')
+        self.assertEqual(m['~releaseannotation'], 'Original Vinyl release')
         self.assertEqual(m['~releaselanguage'], 'eng')
         self.assertEqual(m.getall('~releasecountries'), ['GB', 'NZ'])
         self.assertEqual(a.genres, {