diff --git a/beets/autotag/hooks.py b/beets/autotag/hooks.py
index 3fa80c6f35..252807a051 100644
--- a/beets/autotag/hooks.py
+++ b/beets/autotag/hooks.py
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ def __init__(
         country: str | None = None,
         style: str | None = None,
         genre: str | None = None,
+        genres: str | None = None,
         albumstatus: str | None = None,
         media: str | None = None,
         albumdisambig: str | None = None,
@@ -143,6 +144,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.country = country
         self.style = style
         self.genre = genre
+        self.genres = genres
         self.albumstatus = albumstatus
         self.media = media
         self.albumdisambig = albumdisambig
@@ -212,6 +214,7 @@ def __init__(
         bpm: str | None = None,
         initial_key: str | None = None,
         genre: str | None = None,
+        genres: str | None = None,
         album: str | None = None,
         **kwargs,
     ):
@@ -246,6 +249,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.bpm = bpm
         self.initial_key = initial_key
         self.genre = genre
+        self.genres = genres
         self.album = album
         self.update(kwargs)
 
diff --git a/beets/library.py b/beets/library.py
index d4ec63200d..321446c4e0 100644
--- a/beets/library.py
+++ b/beets/library.py
@@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ class Item(LibModel):
         "albumartist_credit": types.STRING,
         "albumartists_credit": types.MULTI_VALUE_DSV,
         "genre": types.STRING,
+        "genres": types.MULTI_VALUE_DSV,
         "style": types.STRING,
         "discogs_albumid": types.INTEGER,
         "discogs_artistid": types.INTEGER,
@@ -1182,6 +1183,7 @@ class Album(LibModel):
         "albumartists_credit": types.MULTI_VALUE_DSV,
         "album": types.STRING,
         "genre": types.STRING,
+        "genres": types.MULTI_VALUE_DSV,
         "style": types.STRING,
         "discogs_albumid": types.INTEGER,
         "discogs_artistid": types.INTEGER,
@@ -1238,6 +1240,7 @@ class Album(LibModel):
         "albumartists_credit",
         "album",
         "genre",
+        "genres",
         "style",
         "discogs_albumid",
         "discogs_artistid",
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 46fa3b64e1..ce4e50e44e 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ New features:
 * Beets now uses ``platformdirs`` to determine the default music directory.
   This location varies between systems -- for example, users can configure it
   on Unix systems via ``user-dirs.dirs(5)``.
+* New multi-valued ``genres`` tag. This change brings up the ``genres`` tag to the same state as the ``*artists*`` multi-valued tags (see :bug:`4743` for details).
+  :bug:`5426`
 
 Bug fixes:
 
diff --git a/test/test_library.py b/test/test_library.py
index b5e6d4eebc..6de71d9ada 100644
--- a/test/test_library.py
+++ b/test/test_library.py
@@ -710,13 +710,13 @@ def test_if_def_false_complete(self):
         self._assert_dest(b"/base/not_played")
 
     def test_first(self):
-        self.i.genres = "Pop; Rock; Classical Crossover"
-        self._setf("%first{$genres}")
+        self.i.semicolon_delimited_field = "Pop; Rock; Classical Crossover"
+        self._setf("%first{$semicolon_delimited_field}")
         self._assert_dest(b"/base/Pop")
 
     def test_first_skip(self):
-        self.i.genres = "Pop; Rock; Classical Crossover"
-        self._setf("%first{$genres,1,2}")
+        self.i.semicolon_delimited_field = "Pop; Rock; Classical Crossover"
+        self._setf("%first{$semicolon_delimited_field,1,2}")
         self._assert_dest(b"/base/Classical Crossover")
 
     def test_first_different_sep(self):
@@ -1308,6 +1308,28 @@ def test_write_date_field(self):
         item.write()
         assert MediaFile(syspath(item.path)).year == clean_year
 
+    def test_write_multi_genres(self):
+        item = self.add_item_fixture(genre="old genre")
+        item.write(
+            tags={"genres": ["g1", "g2"]},
+        )
+
+        # Ensure it reads all genres
+        assert MediaFile(syspath(item.path)).genres == ["g1", "g2"]
+
+        # Ensure reading single genre outputs the first of the genres
+        assert MediaFile(syspath(item.path)).genre == "g1"
+
+    def test_write_multi_genres_both_single_and_multi(self):
+        item = self.add_item_fixture(genre="old genre 1")
+        item.write(
+            tags={"genre": "single genre", "genres": ["multi genre"]},
+        )
+
+        # Ensure the multi takes precedence
+        assert MediaFile(syspath(item.path)).genre == "multi genre"
+        assert MediaFile(syspath(item.path)).genres == ["multi genre"]
+
 
 class ItemReadTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_unreadable_raise_read_error(self):