The host for the evening was Alicia Lundberg.
Results:
1st. Malta - Sommaren som aldrig säger nej (Monica Dominique, Carl-Axel Dominique, Lars Forssell) 37 points 2nd. Ann-Kristin Hedmark - I våran värld (Bengt-Arne Wallin, Anja Notini-Wallin) 29 points 3rd. Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Björn & Benny - Ring Ring (Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Stig Anderson) 8 points 4th. Ted Gärdestad - Oh vilken härlig dag (Ted Gärdestad, Kenneth Gärdestad) 7 points 4th. Glenmarks - En liten sång som alla andra (Östen Warnebring) 7 points 4th. Lill-Babs - Avsked från en vän (Peter Totth, Britt Lindeborg) 7 points 7th. Lasse Berghagen - Ding-Dong (Lasse Berghagen) 3 points 8th. Claes-Göran Hederström - Historien om en vän (Claes Dieden, Anders Henriksson) 1 point 9th. Inga-Lill Nilsson - En frusen ros (Mats Olsson, Karin Stigmark) 0 points
At that time, ABBA were still known, and introduced, by their names - their full introduction on the show was 'Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog. It wouldn't be until 1974 that they went by the name of ABBA.
Melodifestivalen 1973 had 10 competitors and ABBA came in at 3rd place with 8 points. The winning act had 37 points, with second place on 29 points.
It was in preparation for the possibly of performing at Eurovision in 1973, that 'Ring Ring' was translated into English - Stig and the boys understood the importance of performing the song in English for Eurovision - much wider appeal and acceptance.
The winning song that went on to represent Sweden was "Sommar'n Som Aldrig Säger Nej" (The Summer That Never Says No) by 'Malta' (renamed Nova & The Dolls for the Eurovision Song Contest) and ended up coming 5th. One half of the duo 'Malta', was Claes af Geijerstam who was ABBA's sound engineer on the 1979 Tour and Frida's co-host for the 4 TV shows in 1981 "Lite Grand i Örat".
The program has never been released on video or DVD and the story goes that although the broadcast was taped at the time, it was later erased by STV.